He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.

* 1819 – Herman Melville, American writer ( d. 1891 )

Herman Melville called this species sulphur-bottom in his novel Moby-Dick due to an orange-brown or yellow tinge on the underparts from diatom films on the skin.

However, Herman Melville happily lived with the Marquesan Typees for a time after the other two tribes on the island told him they were cannibals.

** Clarel by Herman Melville ( 1876 )

Other writers admired by Orwell included: Ralph Waldo Emerson, G. K. Chesterton, George Gissing, Graham Greene, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Tobias Smollett, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and Yevgeny Zamyatin.

# REDIRECT Herman Melville

In the early 1850s, in Pierre, Herman Melville focuses on a Hamlet-like character's long development as a writer.

Herman Melville ( August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891 ) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.

Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819, the third of eight children of Allan and Maria Gansevoort Melvill.

Herman Melville, c. 1846-47.

From 1838 to 1847, he resided at what is now known as the Herman Melville House in Lansingburgh, New York.

The grave of Herman Melville and his wife

In Herman Melville's Religious Journey, Walter Donald Kring detailed his discovery of letters indicating that Melville had been a member of the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City.

The two books generally considered most important to the Revival were Raymond Weaver's 1921 biography Herman Melville: Man, Mariner and Mystic and his 1924 edition of Melville's last great but never quite finished manuscript, Billy Budd, which Melville's granddaughter gave to Weaver when he visited her for research on the biography.

The other works that helped fan the Revival flames were Carl Van Doren's The American Novel ( 1921 ), D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature ( 1923 ), Carl Van Vechten's essay in The Double Dealer ( 1922 ), and Lewis Mumford's biography, Herman Melville: A Study of His Life and Vision ( 1929 ).

In the same year Newton Arvin published the critical biography Herman Melville, which won the nonfiction National Book Award.

Herman Melville, 1860

On May 12, 1985, the New York City Herman Melville Society gathered at 104 East 26th Street to dedicate the intersection of Park Avenue south and 26th Street as Herman Melville Square.

* Arrowhead — The Home of Herman Melville

* The Life and Works of Herman Melville

* Contemporary views on Herman Melville

Herman Chernoff wrote an overview of optimal sequential designs, while adaptive designs have been surveyed by S. Zacks.

According to a letter Fahrenheit wrote to his friend Herman Boerhaave, his scale was built on the work of Ole Rømer, whom he had met earlier.

In 1974, Michael Stewart and Jerry Herman wrote the musical Mack & Mabel, chronicling the romance between Sennett and Mabel Normand.

Herman Charles Bosman wrote a translation in Afrikaans published in 1948.

However, public reaction was largely sympathetic to Patton, and Herman F. Kuhl, Private Kuhl's father, even wrote his own congressman, stating that he forgave Patton for the incident and requesting that he not be disciplined.

As Herman of Carinthia wrote in one of his translations of a history of al-Andalus, Odo managed a highly successful encircling envelopment which took the attackers totally by surprise — and the result was a chaotic slaughter of the Muslim forces.

The skill with which Gilbert and Sullivan used their performers had an effect on the audience ; as critic Herman Klein wrote: " we secretly marvelled at the naturalness and ease with which Gilbertian quips and absurdities were said and done.

" Military historians Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones wrote, " Unenthusiastic about the attack, Longstreet consumed so much time in properly assembling and aligning the corps that the assault did not commence until 4 p. m. During all the time that passed, Meade continued to move in troops to bring about a more and more complete concentration ; by 6 p. m. he had achieved numerical superiority and had his left well covered.

* Herman Koppel ( 1908 – 1998 ) who wrote 13 symphonies, numerous concertos, and 20 string quartets.

While an undergraduate student at the University of Miami Herman produced, wrote and directed a college musical called Sketchbook.

As well as supplying the music, Herman wrote the book and directed the one-hour revue, called Nightcap.

In 1989, American-playwright Natalie Gaupp wrote a short play titled " The Jerry Herman Center.

When the ship was struck by a whale on November 20, 1820, he joined the boat of the first mate, Owen Chase, who later wrote about the incident in the Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, the book that would inspire Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick.

In White-Jacket, Herman Melville wrote, " But if you want the best idea of Cape Horn, get my friend Dana's unmatchable Two Years Before the Mast.

In July 2006, Graham Coxon wrote and had published a foreword for a new edition of Herman Hesse's novel, Narcissus and Goldmund.

Both Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville caricatured the Almanack — and Franklin by extension — in their writings, while James Russell Lowell, reflecting on the public unveiling in Boston of a statue to honor Franklin, wrote:

Jerry Herman tried to cast Judy Garland, and wrote the show with her in mind.

* Frank Herman, band structure calculations, went into RCA then IBM Research Laboratories, wrote and edited major surveys.

Herman Jacob Mankiewicz ( pronounced MAN-kyeh-vich ; November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953 ) was an American screenwriter, who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane ( 1941 ).

Lederer, a child prodigy, who had entered college at thirteen, got to know Mankiewicz ..." Herman eventually “ saw Hearst as ‘ a finagling, calculating, Machiavellian figure .’ But also, with Charlie Lederer, ... wrote and had printed parodies of Hearst newspapers ...”

In his attempt to remain in America, James wrote a study of Herman Melville, Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In, and had copies of the privately published work sent to every member of the Senate.

Danish author Herman Bang wrote about the war and its effects on the island of Als in his novel Tine, published in 1889.

The historian Herman Moisl, for example, wrote that " Aldfrith was in Iona in the year preceding the battle Nechtansmere ; immediately afterwards, he was king of Northumbria.