Herman Melville
Herman Melville Herman Melville was an American writer who lived during most of the 19th century. ... Also, unlike Emerson, as Melville grew older he became much more pessimistic and negative in his writing. Overall, Melville’s beliefs and style were very different than Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendentalist beliefs. Firstly, Melville and other writers of the time such as Nathaniel Hawthorne thought that Emerson’s beliefs and ideas were out of line and crazy. Melville, and writers like him, thought that Emerson’s transcendentalist ideas were false. ... Melville, on the other hand believed mostly the opposite of this. ... Writers like Melville were considered by some to be anti-transcendentalists.