Melville was pessimistic about the world like his other romantic writer peers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe. ... But the writer of Moby Dick, Herman Melville, fellow author Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe took just the opposite view, that nature was hostile and harmful to human culture and interests. ...

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Edgar Allan Poe was a highly lauded poet who lived in the 1800's. He is recognized the most for his gothic-horror short stories and his critical reviews of famous authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne. Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19,1809. His parents were both professional actors,...

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