What is the first sentence of Herman Melville’s Moby Diek?
The first sentence of Herman Melville’s Moby Diek was “Call me Ishmael.”
The first sentence of Herman Melville’s Moby Diek was “Call me Ishmael.”
Henry Miller was married four times.
The hero of Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha (1855) belonged to the Mohawk tribe, one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois.
Archibald Macleish (1892-1982) said, “A poem should not mean/But be” in Ars Poetica.
“II Penseroso,” written in 1632 is Milton’s companion work to “L’Allegro”.
Charlotte Bronte’s close friend, novelist Elizabeth Gaskell wrote The Life of Charlotte Bronte. The two met in 1850; Bronte died five years later.
Bluebeard, the title character of Charles Perrault’s story “Barbebleue” (1697) kills his wives for looking into the locked room where he stores the corpses of other disobedient wives. His final wife, however, escapes Bluebeard’s punishment.