Carl Clinton Van Doren: Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

-- Carl Clinton Van Doren


		Name: Carl Clinton Van Doren Type: Critic Nationality: American Birth: September 10, 1885 Death: July 18, 1950

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