After his use of hyphenated compounds in Pierre, Melville’s writing gives Berthoff the impression of becoming less exploratory and less provocative in his choices of words and phrases. Instead of providing a lead into possible meanings and openings-out of the material in hand, the vocabulary now served “to crystallize governing impressions, the diction no longer attracted attention to itself, except as an effort at exact definition. The language, Berthoff continues, reflects a “controlling intelligence, of right judgment and completed understanding The sense of free inquiry and exploration which infused his earlier writing and accounted for its “rare force and expansiveness, tended to give way to “static enumeration”. By comparison to the verbal music and kinetic energy of Moby-Dick, Melville’s subsequent writings seem “relatively muted, even withheld” in his later works.

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