Hermannus Melville

Parentes Allan et Maria Ganeswoort Melvill fuerunt. Tempore cognomen ad Melville mutatum est. Duodecim annos natus, patris orbus, munus exceptoris in mensa publica fungebatur. Deinde operarius fundo avunculi vivebat.

Ab Octobri mense 1830 ad Octobrem 1831, et ab Octobri 1836 ad Martium 1837, scholam frequentabat ubi linguis Graeca Latinaque studebat (Titus 2003:1, 4–10). . . . Ad tempus munus magistri ludi Massaciussetae exsequebatur. Anno 1839, ad Liverpolium profectus est in navi oneraria, Sancto Laurentio nomine, qua ad nautae officium implendum se locaverat. Nauta iterum anno 1842 in navi cetaria in Oceano Pacifico navigabat. Cum in navi Marquesas Marchionis attigissit, illam reliquerit. Tres hebdomades mense Iulio inter indigenas habitabat; posthaec ad Honolulu Havaiorum enavigavit, ubi diu permanebat. Plusquam duo annos inter insulas Oceani Pacifici post habitationem, domum rediit.

Moby-Dick mythistoria est eius magnum opus, saepe illud in uno ex gravissimis omnis temporis operibus litterarum habetur. Melville librum suo Nathanieli Hawthorne dedicavit.^[1] Melville etiam scripsit Billy Budd, White-Jacket, Typee, Omoo, Pierre, The Confidence-Man, et alios libros variorum generum.

Bello Civili Americano confecto, vulgavit Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War, librum poematum qui a populo non bene acceptus est: ex 1200 exemplaribus impressis a Harper & Bros., decem post annos, solum 525 vendita sunt.^[2]

• Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846)
• Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas (1847)
• Mardi: And a Voyage Thither (1849)
• Redburn: His First Voyage (1849)
• White-Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War (1850)
• Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale (1851)
• Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852)
• Isle of the Cross (ca. 1853, since lost)^[3]
• Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1856)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857)
• Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative) (1924)

• The Piazza Tales (1856)
  • "The Piazza," solus libellus pro congerie scriptus.
  • "Bartleby the Scrivener"
  • "Benito Cereno"
  • "The Lightning-Rod Man"
  • "The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles"
  • "The Bell-Tower"
• Non conlecti
  • "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!" (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December 1853)
  • "Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs" (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, June 1854)
  • "The Happy Failure" (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, July 1854)
  • "The Fiddler" (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, September 1854)
  • "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids" (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, April 1855)
  • "Jimmy Rose" (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, November 1855)
  • "The 'Gees" (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, March 1856)
  • "I and My Chimney" (Putnam's Monthly Magazine, March 1856)
  • "The Apple-Tree Table" (Putnam's Monthly Magazine, May 1856)
• Non vulgati Melville vivo
  • "The Two Temples"
  • "Daniel Orme"

Conlectiones

• Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)
• Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876)
• John Marr and Other Sailors (1888) Editio interretialis
• Timoleon (1891) Editio interretialis
• Weeds and Wildings, and a Rose or Two (1924)

Poemata non conlecta vel non vulgata

• "Epistle to Daniel Shepherd"
• "Inscription for the Slain at Fredericksburgh" [sic]
• "The Admiral of the White"
• "To Tom"
• "Suggested by the Ruins of a Mountain-Temple in Arcadia"
• "Puzzlement"
• "The Continents"
• "The Dust-Layers"
• "A Rail Road Cutting near Alexandria in 1855"
• "A Reasonable Constitution"
• "Rammon"
• "A Ditty of Aristippus"
• "In a Nutshell"
• "Adieu"

Non conlecti Melville vivo:

• "Fragments from a Writing Desk, No. 1" (Democratic Press, and Lansingburgh Advertiser, May 4, 1839)
• "Fragments from a Writing Desk, No. 2" (Democratic Press, and Lansingburgh Advertiser, May 18, 1839)
• "Etchings of a Whaling Cruise" (New York Literary World, March 6, 1847)
• "Authentic Anecdotes of 'Old Zack'" (Yankee Doodle, II, excerpted September 4, published in full weekly from July 24 to September 11, 1847)
• "Mr Parkman's Tour" (New York Literary World, March 31, 1849)
• "Cooper's New Novel" (New York Literary World, April 28, 1849)
• "A Thought on Book-Binding" (New York Literary World, March 16, 1850)
• "Hawthorne and His Mosses" (New York Literary World, August 17 and August 24, 1850)

• Correspondence, ed. Lynn Horth. 1993. Evanstoniae Illinoesiae et Sicagi: Northwestern University Press and The Newberry Library. ISBN 0-8101-0995-6.
• Journals, ed. Howard C. Horsford, cum Lynn Horth. 1989. Evanstoniae Illinoesiae et Chicago: Northwestern University Press et The Newberry Library. ISBN 0-8101-0823-2.

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