"The hint of style": Byron, John Hookham Frere, and Melville's Marginalia in William Tennant's Anster Fair.(Critical essay)

From: Leviathan | Date: June 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

During Allan Melvill's visit to Scotland, the Reverend Robert Swan presented Melvill, soon to become Herman Melville's father, with a copy of Anster Fair: A Poem (1812), by the scholar and poet William Tennant (1784-1848), resident of Anstruther, in county Fife, the Melville ancestral home (see Fig. 1). The gift inscription is dated "May 20th 1818." Decades later, and opposite his father's name, Melville unobtrusively recorded on the verso of the title page the autograph "Herman Melville/N.Y. 1875." A modern reader of Anster Fair will find passages reminiscent of Melville's own ...

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