" Like all sailors ashore , I at last pined for the billows " ( herman melville ) .
“就象全部呆在岸上水手,我最终仍然念念不忘那滔天巨浪”(荷曼麦尔维尔)。
One morning in march , he was in melville , long island , pitching his pension-reform agenda to the newsday editorial board .
今年三月的一天清晨,他在长岛的梅尔维尔,向《新闻日报》的编委会陈述了他的退休金改革议程。
American independent culture and literature was born in the midst of the 19 thcentury . In this time , american literary arena appeared one group of great writers , herman melville included , his representative work moby dick is regarded as thenational epic of america .
Moby dick is the masterpiece of herman melville , famous american novelist of19th century , who uses the symbolic methods in the novel and make the novel full of the permanent artistic charm and the literary value above time and space . ?
In the history of american literature , hawthorne ranks among the few important writers whose works responded to the call of the times for american literature , other writers of this group including cooper , emerson , thoreau , melville and whitman , etc.