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In 1947, Van Wyck Brooks, comparing Whitman’s Leaves of Grass with Melville’s Moby-Dick, argued that “[o]ne gave the dark side of the planet, the other the bright” (Brooks: 175). Brooks’s insight captures the dramatic polarity of America’s literary giants. Melville and Whitman were contemporaries, both born in 1819, both men died within a year of each other (1891-1892). Both men are monumental figures in world literature, and yet they display vastly different understandings of American charac... |
