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I stand for the heart. To the dogs with the head! I had rather be a fool with a heart, than Jupiter Olympus with his head. The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch. - Herman Melville Attribution: Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, June 1?, 1851, to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Correspondence, vol. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (1993).

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Herman Melville

Titles by Herman Melville:

• Bartleby the Scrivener, A Tale of Wall Street
• Billy Budd
• Classic American Short Stories
• Moby Dick

Salem on History:

• Herman Melville

Critical Companions:

• Melville, Herman (1819 - 1891) (Gothic Literature)

eNotes:

• Herman Melville (Moby Dick)
• Herman Melville (Billy Budd)
• Herman Melville (Bartleby the Scrivener, A Tale of Wall Street)

Encyclopedia:

• Melville, Herman (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Melville, Herman (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)
• Melville, Herman (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Herman Melville (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Literary Criticism:

• Redburn: His First Voyage, Herman Melville (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Benito Cereno, Herman Melville (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Pierre, or, The Ambiguities, Herman Melville (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Bartleby, the Scrivener Melville, Herman (Short Story Criticism)
• Billy Budd, Herman Melville (Short Story Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Herman Melville is born
• Herman Melville publishes Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
• Herman Melville dies