Showing posts with label Melville's Reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Melville's Reading. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
books as friends
Walter E. Bezanson on Melville's reading and marginalia:
"The markings and annotations which he made in many of his books provide a rich index to his complexity of mind and temperament....Clearly he read in part for companionship. He sat down among his books as among friends...." (Hendricks House Clarel, xxviii)
"Oh, my books! my favorite authors, how I miss you!"
("Scenes Beyond the Western Border," Southern Literary Messenger, September 1851); and Scenes and Adventures in the Army
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