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 (September 10 1885 – July 18 1950) was a U. He earned a bachelor of arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1907 and a doctorate from Columbia University in 1911 and continued to teach there until 1930.

S. critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. Carl Clinton Van Doren (September 10 1885 – July 18 1950) was a U.