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Carl Clinton Van Doren Quotes

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
Carl Clinton Van Doren

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Type:
Critic Quotes
Category:
American Critic Quotes
Date of Birth:
September 10, 1885
Date of Death:
July 18, 1950
Nationality:
American
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