Word: memoirists
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...speculate on why the best of U.S. novelists was so wretched a poet. The reason may merely be that there is no connection between the two pursuits. At any rate, Melville wrote little if any poetry as a young man. He was a sailor, a travel and adventure memoirist (Typee), and a much-applauded literary figure who had no reason to believe his success would not continue. Then in 1851, at the age of 32, he wrote Moby-Dick. Its depths confused the critics, and it was not much praised or purchased...
Classicist, philosopher, novelist, essayist, memoirist, journalist, diarist (170-odd volumes of notebooks repose in Houghton Library)--and so much more. Above all he strove to be a 20th-century Periclean Hellene; and his whole life was indeed a paragon of the ancient Greek arete...
...SPANISH CIVIL WAR, by Hugh Thomas. The author is the first historian to write about this little-understood prologue to World War II neither as a partisan nor an embittered memoirist. His book is likely to be the definitive one for some years to come...
...Cambridge, the British Foreign Office and Sandhurst, has, by his own account, consulted nearly a thousand books in five great libraries and in five languages to lend weight to his massive reappraisal of Spain. He is the first historian to write as neither a partisan nor an embittered memoirist. His book is likely to be for some time the definitive précis of the records and the last tabulation of disks from the military cemeteries. Thomas' material and conclusions make it impossible to go on seeing the war in the simple terms in which it was debated...
...Mendelssohn daughters, Fanny and Rebecka, two friends of the family, and Fanny's husband, Painter Wilhelm Hensel. Since Hensel had no ear for music, Felix had given him only one note in a trio. When the great day came, wrote one of the more musical friends, Memoirist Eduard Devrient, "[Hensel was] not able to catch the note, though it was blown and whispered to him from every side." Even so, "the work made a great impression...