https://padlet.com/1100323760/nsa65b5tjyzg It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~ Herman Melville en-us 2018-10-31 14:41:44 UTC 2018-11-01 15:08:54 UTC hello@padlet.com 1100323760 https://padlet.com/1100323760/nsa65b5tjyzg/wish/299008772 August 1, 1819 : Birth
1832: After going bankrupt two years prior father dies, and Herman left alone to take care of mother and 7 siblings.
1846 : 1st novel is published
May 1, 1847 : 2nd novel published
August 4, 1847 : Marriage
1849 : Publishes two more novels and 1st son is born
October 22, 1851 : Second son is born
1850 :  Novel White Jacket is published
1851 : Moby Dick is published 
1853 : Daughter is born and attempts short stories
1855 : Last Daughter is born
1863 : Sell home due to debt
1864 : Visits the front lines of Civil War
1867 : Son dies, shooting himself
February 23 1886 : Second son dies of tuberculosis 
September 28 1891: Death
1924 : Unpublished manuscript Billy Budd found on his desk after his death is published]]> 2018-10-31 14:48:55 UTC https://padlet.com/1100323760/nsa65b5tjyzg/wish/299008772 1100323760 https://padlet.com/1100323760/nsa65b5tjyzg/wish/299025904 1. Typee
2. Polynesian life
3. Moby Dick
4. Redburn]]> 2018-10-31 15:18:15 UTC https://padlet.com/1100323760/nsa65b5tjyzg/wish/299025904 1100323760 https://padlet.com/1100323760/nsa65b5tjyzg/wish/299397445 “Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick]]> 2018-11-01 14:47:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1100323760/nsa65b5tjyzg/wish/299397445 1100323760 https://padlet.com/1100323760/nsa65b5tjyzg/wish/299399924 - A lot of his writing inspiration comes his experiences and travels, from voyages he has taken. "then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”  (Melville). 
- When in the aspect of romanticism he hits the nature, individualism, the imagination, and freedom points. 
- Nature comes from the voyages and the way he talk about seas and his adventures.
- Individualism he focuses a lot on the main characters and there independence from others.
- Freedom of the open sea specifically for Moby-dick.
- As for imagination he lets it run wild as he creates characters and stories ]]> 2018-11-01 14:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1100323760/nsa65b5tjyzg/wish/299399924 1100323760 https://padlet.com/1100323760/nsa65b5tjyzg/wish/299406001 - Shmoop Editorial Team. “Herman Melville in American Romanticism.” Shmoop, Shmoop University, 11 Nov. 2008, www.shmoop.com/american-romanticism/herman-melville-author.html.
- “Herman Melville.” geni_family_tree, 23 May 2018, www.geni.com/people/Herman-Melville/6000000004199609491.
- Google, Google, www.google.com/.]]> 2018-11-01 15:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/1100323760/nsa65b5tjyzg/wish/299406001