“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Herman Melville
08.01.1819 - 09.28.1891Herman Melville was an essential American novelist, best known today for the novel Moby-Dick, the novella Billy Budd, and the short story "Bartleby the Scrivener" (all little-noticed in their time, unlike his early bestsellers).
"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own."
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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