Volume 20, Number 5 · April 5, 1973
Melville the New Yorker
By Alfred Kazin
New York is an old city, and indeed looks it along many of these water-front streets[1] where Herman Melville was born and spent his first fifteen years, this New York waterfront from which he first embarked at eighteen, and where later, from ages forty-seven, to sixty-six, he worked as a deputy inspector of customs. But New York is also the city most expert and ruthless in destroying its past, in eliminating every possible vestige of its past.
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