Ep. 1 of 4 on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor.  Consider Billy Budd in the context of Melville’s career and the influence of Hawthorne, Shakespeare, and John Milton on his writing. See Hershel Parker's 2-volume biography. See the truncated biography of Melville in 7th edition of Norton Anthology of American Literature 

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