Victor had been stirred by my account of him in Makers And Finders, for Stephens was one of the lost writers whom Melville had seen in his childhood and whom I was bent on resurrecting.

This view was met with ridicule, but was later supported by Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melville in their 1848 monograph The Dodo and Its Kindred, which attempted to separate myth from reality.

He lost his father in 1791 and his mother in 1795 and was brought up by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.

Gray whaling in Magdalena Bay was revived in the winter of 1855-56 by several vessels, mainly from San Francisco, including the ship Leonore, under Captain Charles Melville Scammon.

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

It was not until the " Melville Revival " in the early 20th century that his work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick, which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature.

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

His maternal grandfather was General Peter Gansevoort, a hero of the Battle of Saratoga ; in his gold-laced uniform, the general sat for a portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart, which is described in Melville's 1852 novel, Pierre, for Melville wrote out of his familial as well as his nautical background.

Omoo was not as colorful as Typee, and readers began to realize Melville was not just producing adventure stories.

We were somewhat startled at the remark, but still more at learning, a few days after, that Melville was really supposed to be deranged, and that his friends were taking measures to place him under treatment.

To repair his faltering finances, Melville listened to the advice of friends and decided to enter what was for others the lucrative field of lecturing.

But the publication failed miserably, and the unsold copies were burned when Melville was unable to afford to buy them at cost.

A common story says that his New York Times obituary called him " Henry Melville ", implying that he was unknown and unappreciated at his time of death, but the story is not true.

Melville was not financially successful as a writer, having earned just over $ 10, 000 for his writing during his lifetime.

In 1945, the Melville Society was formed as a nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating Melville ’ s literary legacy.

In 2010 it was announced that a new species of extinct giant sperm whale, Livyatan melvillei was named in honor of Melville.

Melville spent years writing a 16, 000-line epic poem, Clarel, inspired by his earlier trip to the Holy Land.

Among them were writers and artists inspired by the mountain scene: Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Herman Melville, and Henry David Thoreau.

The mountain, located within the state reservation of the same name, is the highest point in Massachusetts, a waypoint on the Appalachian Trail, and in the 19th-century inspired writers including Herman Melville.

Scholars speculate that Poe, who was an influence on Herman Melville, inspired the character of Ahab in Melville's novel Moby-Dick.

The band performed the song as " Killing an Ahab " with lyrics inspired by Herman Melville on 2011's " Reflections " tour.

As part of Audi's celebration of quattro All-Wheel Drive technology, a TV commercial titled ' Ahab ' was produced inspired by the classic Herman Melville novel.

It also inspired the novella Billy Budd by American author Herman Melville.

It was made into a film of the same name, a collaboration between Cocteau and director Jean-Pierre Melville in 1950, and inspired the opera of the same name by Philip Glass.

The event inspired Herman Melville to write the poem entitled, " The Stone Fleet ".

The game started life with the codename Project X, a script written by Digital Pictures co-founder Ken Melville that was inspired by Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Invaders from Mars.

System and its Creator Melville Dewey by University of British Columbia's mission, the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies

** Clarel by Herman Melville ( 1876 )

Many contemporaries of Godard and Truffaut followed suit, or achieved international critical acclaim with styles of their own, such as the minimalist films of Robert Bresson and Jean-Pierre Melville, the Hitchcockian-like thrillers of Henri-Georges Clouzot, and other New Wave films by Agnès Varda and Alain Resnais.

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.

For three weeks he lived among the Typee natives, who were called cannibals by the two other tribal groups on the island — though they treated Melville very well.

Typee and Omoo gave Melville overnight notoriety as a writer and adventurer, and he often entertained by telling stories to his admirers.

Jay Leyda, better known for his work in film, spent more than a decade gathering documents and records for the day by day Melville Log ( 1951 ).

The film is also considered to be an homage to Le Samourai, a 1967 French New Wave film by auteur Jean-Pierre Melville, which starred renowned French actor Alain Delon in a strikingly similar role and narrative.

* 1950: Les Enfants terribles directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, script by Jean Cocteau based on his novel

With references from Boas and Ruth Benedict, he was accepted as a graduate student by Melville J. Herskovits at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Greenland by the Polar Sea: The Story of the Thule Expedition from Melville Bay to Cape Morris Jesup.

* In the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville many references are made to phrenology and the narrator identifies himself as an amateur phrenologist.

As Hesmondhalgh and Melville wrote, " Tricky showed his debt to hip-hop aesthetics by reconstructualizing samples and slices of both the most respected black music ( Public Enemy ) and the tackiest pop ( quoting David Cassidy ’ s “ How Can I Be Sure ?”).

Melville drew extensively on contemporary accounts by Pacific explorers to add cultural detail to what might otherwise have been a straightforward story of escape, capture, and re-escape.

The same version was published in the United States ; however, critical references to missionaries and Christianity were removed by Melville from the second US edition at the request of his American publisher.

Later additions included a " Sequel: The Story of Toby " written by Melville explaining what happened to Toby.

In a scene where the Dolly is boarded by young women from Nukuheva, Melville originally wrote: