The Divine Magnet: Herman Melville’s Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne ed. by Mark Niemeyer
Journal: Pleiades
Year: 2017

Reviewed by: The Divine Magnet: Herman Melville’s Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne ed. by Mark Niemeyer Sean Ford (bio) Mark Niemeyer, ed. The Divine Magnet: Herman Melville’s Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Orison Books, 2016. Herman Melville’s literary standing is deeply en-twined with interest in the man—the liberal adventurer, the astonishing autodidact, the aging poet writing in solitude, quietly vanishing from the public eye. Ever at odds with the common practice of searching for authors wit