Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the summer of 1850, Melville purchased an 18th century farmhouse in the Pittsfield community of Berkshire, Massachusetts. Berkshire was home to famous literary scholars such as Fanny Kemble, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Lenox. The two authors gathered to participate in a picnic tour organized by David Dudley Field at Stockbridge on August 5, 1850. Hawthorne, 46, who was familiar with at least a part of Melville's work, made favorable comments on Typee in Salem's advertiser (25th March 1846), Melville 31, just wrote or write Your email address

The friendship between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne was dedicated to Hawthorne as Melville as a writer's critic and biographer, and one of the best masterpieces of American literature, Moby-Dick and its masterpiece I have done it. Praise for the older writer's "genius". On August 5, 1850, they took part in the first literary picnic meeting and the subsequent 16 months of friendship. Exciting knowledge exchange, creative fertilization, and urgency after regret, gradually alienation, disillusionment, and long-term ambiguity. After Shakespeare and the Bible, Hawthorn, a man and an artist, had the greatest influence on Melville's work and left a clear sign on his plot, theme, features, symbols and images. Claire et al

While he was drafting the novel "Moby Dick", Melville met Natani El Hawthorn, a recently published literary masterpiece "Red Letter" and met. Hawthorne provided valuable feedback on the manuscript to Melville and encouraged him to convert the current draft (detailed whaling record) into a fable. In October 1851, a whale (later published as a Beluga whale record) was published in London. Allegorically nurturing Melwood's novel has been involved in the connection between whaling and American identity in the mid-19th century. At the heart of the story is a narrator Ishmael, a seafarer of the whale team Pequod. Captain Ahab lost support of Beluga in the previous expedition, and he got angry at the point of chaos due to the revenge of whale's life.