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1905–1963 United States
Perry Gilbert Eddy Miller (February 25, 1905 – December 9, 1963) was an American historian, biographer, literary critic, and Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University, where he taught an outstanding course on the American Romantics.
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By the middle of the twentieth century, the world had accepted Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, published in 1851, as an indubitable masterpiece of the nineteenth, even though that world became aware of it only a generation ago.
The Raven and the Whale (1956)
Later practitioners improved upon Mitchell and Stoughton only by extending the list of sins, by going into greater detail. Year by year the stock enumeration grew, and once a new sin was added to the series it kept its place in subsequent editions.
He deserves credit for his courageous advocacy of the Longworth wines of Ohio, probably more than for his contributions to literature: his trade monthly, published from 1854 t0 1861, Cozzens' Wine Press, is a neglected classic which provides a charming insight into the amenities of the table in a society which devoted considerable care to that department.
The Raven and the Whale (1956)
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