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SOURCE: “The Adamastor and the Spirit-Spout: Echoes of Camoens in Herman Melville's Moby Dick,” in From Dante to García Márquez: Studies in Romance Literatures and Linguistics, edited by Gene H. Bell-Villada, et al., Williams College, 1987, pp. 114-32.
In the following essay, Severino traces the influence of The Lusiads on Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
In the middle of the last century, an American man of letters who had gone to sea as a young man became acquainted with the work of a Portuguese poet of the sixteenth century, like him, a former sailor and a lover of the sea.1 Out of this encounter across the centuries sprung forth a novel which many consider the greatest by an American writer and one of the major sea epics of world literature.
The presence of Luis de Camoens (1524-1580) and of his epic poem The Lusiads (1572) in the work of...
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