Sealts, to tell them Melville had finished the story about the abandoned wife he had tried to persuade Hawthorne to write. I had the privilege of telephoning two old masters, Hayford and Merton M.
Q: What was the most exciting discovery for you in this volume?Ī: Finding that Melville had completed a book called “The Isle of the Cross” around May 22, 1853. Hayford demanded publishable articles, so I sent that paper to a literary journal published at UCLA and in 1963 found myself with a new career, that easy. With my Baptist background and knowing the analysis of the practicability of Christianity in “Pierre,” I saw that in his allegorical depiction of Indian-hating, Melville was contrasting absolute and nominal Christianity. In 1962 at Northwestern University, I wrote a paper for the Melville scholar Harrison Hayford on “The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating” in “The Confidence-Man.” I am a quarter Indian (Cherokee and Choctaw), but this was not an exercise in victimology. By the time I read “Moby-Dick” and “Pierre,” I was astounded that an American writer had absorbed Shakespeare so profoundly. I caught tuberculosis and took only one book to a sanitarium, a one-volume Shakespeare. I left high school after the 11th grade and for seven years was a railroad telegrapher in Louisiana and Texas. Question: What was your introduction to Melville?Īnswer: Through Shakespeare.
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