Divine Magnet

If you dont know Melvilles letters to Hawthorne, you dont know Melville. These letters are full of passion, humor, doubt, and spiritual yearning, and offer an intimate view of Melvilles personality. Lyrical and effusive, they are literary works in themselves. This correspondence has been out of print for decades, and even when it was in print it appeared in scholarly volumes of Melvilles complete correspondence, aimed at the academy. The Divine Magnet will provide the general literary public as well as the college classroom with a reliable and beautifully produced volume of Melvilles letters to Hawthorne, along with supplemental material, highlighting the relationship between these luminaries of American letters.