 | Raymond Melbourne Weaver - 1921 - 442 pages
...going to take him by his jaw, however, before long, and finish him up in some fashion or other. What's the use of elaborating what, in its very essence, is so short-lived as a modem book? Though I wrote the Gospels in this century, I should die in the gutter. — I talk all... | |
 | John Freeman - 1926 - 222 pages
...breaks mockingly through this long letter was due to the circumstances of his life and calling. "What's the use of elaborating what, in its very essence,...Gospels in this century, I should die in the gutter." What he would have been in affluence and security, with power to order his life \ as he liked, it is... | |
 | John Freeman - 1926 - 228 pages
...breaks mockingly through this long letter was due to the circumstances of his life and calling. " What's the use of elaborating what, in its very essence,...Gospels in this century, I should die in the gutter." What he would have been in affluence and security, with power to order his life as he liked, it is... | |
 | Richard H. Brodhead - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 267 pages
...world anew, and show them deeper secrets than the Apocalypse!" (319) (Compare Melville to Hawthorne: "Though I wrote the Gospels in this century, I should die in the gutter.") That web of highly charged aspirations that entered Melvillean authorship with Mardi, then reached... | |
 | Tony Tanner - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 292 pages
...show them deeper secrets than the Apocalypse!' But as Melville wrote in a letter to Hawthorne in 1851: 'Though I wrote the Gospels in this century, I should die in the gutter.' Pierre's health is undermined, his eyesight starts to fail, and as he writes on and on Melville asks:... | |
 | Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - Fiction - 1988 - 1080 pages
...going to take him by his jaw, however, before long, and finish him up in some fashion or other. What's the use of elaborating what, in its very essence,...Gospels in this century, I should die in the gutter. Melville's language here, the "final hash," the "botches," resembles that he employed a few months... | |
 | Philip Young - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 177 pages
...Melville, 202. grater. . . . What I feel most moved to write, that is banned, — it will not pay. . . . Though I wrote the Gospels in this century. I should die in the gutter."21 Four decades later he died in a gutter— in a private, final flicker of a low flame. In... | |
 | Nancy Fredricks - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 174 pages
...Melville, like Pierre, was aspiring to "gospelize the world anew" when he wrote to Hawthorne in 1851: "Though I wrote the Gospels in this century, I should die in the gutter." There is evidence to suggest that Melville saw his task in such high ethical terms. For example, he... | |
 | Hershel Parker - Novelists, American - 1996 - 1014 pages
...he did the job, there seemed no point to his driving himself as hard as he knew he would do: "What's the use of elaborating what, in its very essence,...Gospels in this century, I should die in the gutter." Melville's jumping ship to live briefly among Polynesian natives was not one of the great adventures... | |
 | Christopher Sten - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 108 pages
...Melville doubted that his effort would be appreciated, but his mistrust masks his intention: "What's the use of elaborating what, in its very essence, is so short-lived as a modern book? Tho I wrote the Gospels in this century, I should die in the gutter." See Leyda 1:411. In a recent... | |
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What's the use of elaborating what, in its very essence, is so short-lived as a modern book? Though I wrote the Gospels in this century, I should die in the gutter. 
