"Is it possible now to have any doubt as to what Melville had in mind when he wrote Moby-Dick? These early books of his are not an account of his life from 1839, when he first shipped, to 1844 when he returned home. They are an account of the development of a mind from 1844 to 1850, the finest mind that has ever functioned in the New World and the greatest since Shakespeare's that has ever concerned itself with literature."
—page 84, chapter IV, "Fiction and Reality," Mariners, Renegades & Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In by C. L. R. James
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