AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Herman Melville
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Thomas Gray
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Henry David Thoreau
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Detailed explanation-1: -Quote by Herman Melville: “I would prefer not to.”
Detailed explanation-2: -Bartleby does not like change. “I would prefer not to make any change” he says, and a little later states “I like to be stationary”. In fact, he prefers not to go very far at all, working, eating, sleeping all in the same place. He is unable to move out of his private world and make public aspects of himself.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was collected in his 1856 volume The Piazza Tales. Melville wrote “Bartleby” at a time when his career seemed to be in ruins, and the story reflects his pessimism. The narrator, a successful Wall Street lawyer, hires a scrivener named Bartleby to copy legal documents.
Detailed explanation-4: -Read a brief summary of this topic. Herman Melville, (born August 1, 1819, New York City-died September 28, 1891, New York City), American novelist, short-story writer, and poet, best known for his novels of the sea, including his masterpiece, Moby Dick (1851).