Part one of term paper
was an American author of the Romantic period who was also considered to be a transcendentalist. This meant that his focus was on nature and how we should live vicariously through nature and try to combat with nature. was born in New York City on August 1st of 1819. He is the third child and second son of his father, Allan Melville, and mot ...

Part two of term paper
... Albany Academy from 1830 to 1831. After his father died Melville was forced to drop out. In 1832 he started work as a clerk at the New York State Bank in Albany. After that he moved to Pittsfield Massachusetts to work on his Uncle Thomas’s farm. Upon quitting his job in 1835 he attended the Albany Classic School and worked as a bookkeeper and clerk at his brother’s fur company. After a series of other jobs and moving around he gets “Fragments from a Writing Desk” published. But went to New ...