Born on this day – Herman Melville:

Herman Melville

Writer

August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891

Credits:

Books:

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Classic Novellas (2011); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); Bartleby: The Scrivener (1853); Billy Budd (1924); Classic Sea Stories (1996); Famous and Curious Animal Stories (1989); I Would Prefer Not To (2021); Israel Potter (1855); Keys to the Bureau (2013); Mardi (1849); Moby Dick (1851); Mysterious Sea Stories (1987); Omoo (1847); Pierre (1852); Redburn (1849); The Apple-Tree Table (1922); The Best Crime Stories Ever Told (2002); The Confidence-Man (1857); The Great Sea Adventure (2019); The Piazza Tales (1856); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); Typee (1846); War: An Anthology (1969); White-Jacket (1850); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing New York (1998).

Movies and television:

2010: Moby Dick (2010); A Baleia Branca - Uma Ideia de Deus (2007); Age of the Dragons (2011); Animated Epics: Moby Dick (1999); As Ilhas Encantadas (1965); Bartleby - Geschichte der Wall Street (2010); Bartleby (1963 / 1969 / 1970 / 1976 / 2001 / 2016 / 2023); Bartleby le scribe (2010); Bartleby l'écrivain (1957); Bartleby ou Les hommes au rebut (1993); Bartleby the Scrivener (1977); Beau Travail (1999); Beer and Board Games (2016); Benito Cereno (1969); Billy Budd (1962 / 1966 / 1988 / 1998 / 2001 / 2010 / 2017); Billy Budd, fra Den Norske Opera & Ballett (2019); Camera Three (1955); Capitaine Achab (2004); Captain Ahab (2007); Dämon des Meeres (1931); Enchanted Island (1958); Encounter (1955); Explained (2018); History's Mysteries (2000); Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson (1986); Hora once (1972); I riassuntini (2018); Ishmael (2022); Last of the Pagans (1935); Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1964); L'homme silencieux (2021); Los libros (1974); Mobi Dik (1972); Moby Dick (1930 / Moby Dick (1954 / 1956 / 1978 / 1998 / 2000 / 2011); Moby Dick et le secret de Mu (2005); Moby Dick Rehearsed (1955); Moby-Dick (1977 / 2013); Mythos Wal (2017); NBC Experiment in Television (1970); NBC Television Opera Theatre (1952); NET Playhouse (1967); Omoo-Omoo the Shark God (1949); One Man's Story (1953); Parlez-moi de Vous (2016); Partanen (2003); Pisar Bartleby (1966); Pola X (1999); Ponds Theater (1955); Rappresentazione della terribile caccia alla balena bianca Moby Dick (1973); Revenge of the Whale (2001); Salinger (2013); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Siesta Z (2017); Strange Stories (1953); The Adventures of Moby Dick (1996); The DuPont Show of the Month (1959); The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo (1964); The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003); The Lighthouse (2019); The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1969); The Sea Beast (1926); The White Whale of Mu (1980); War is Kind: Poetry of the Civil War (1999); Your Favorite Story / A Tale of the Enchanted Isles (1953); Zwischen Meer und Himmel (1957).

Born on this day – Walt Whitman:

Walt Whitman

Writer

May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892

Poems:

1861; A Boston Ballad, 1854; A child said, What is the grass?; A Child's Amaze; A Clear Midnight; A Farm-Picture; A Glimpse; A Hand-Mirror; A Leaf For Hand In Hand; A March In The Ranks, Hard-prest; A Noiseless Patient Spider; A Paumanok Picture; A Proadway Pageant; A Promise To California; A Riddle Song; A Sight In Camp; A Song; A Woman Waits For Me; Aboard At A Ship's Helm; Adieu To A Soldier; After The Sea-Ship; Ages And Ages, Returning At Intervals; Ah Poverties, Wincings Sulky Retreats; All Is Truth; American Feuillage; Among The Multitude; An Army Corps On The March; Apostroph; As A Strong Bird On Pinious Free; As Consequent, Etc.; As I Ebb'd With the Ocean of Life; As I lay With Head In Your Lap, Camerado; As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap, Camerado; As I Ponder'd In Silence; As I Ponder'd In Silence; As I Sat Alone By Blue Ontario's Shores; As I Walk These Broad, Majestic Days; As I Watche'd The Ploughman Ploughing; As If A Phantom Caress'd Me; As The Time Draws Nigh; As Toilsome I Wander'd; As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods; assurances; Bathed In War's Perfume; Beat! Beat! Drums!; Beautiful Women; Beginners; Beginning My Studies; Behavior; Behold This Swarthy Face; Bivouac on a Mountain Side; Brother Of All, With Genesrous Hand; By Broad Potomac's Shore; By The Bivouac's Fitful Flame; Camps Of Green; Carol Of Occupations; Carol Of Words; Cavalry Crossing A Ford; Chanting The Square Deific; City Of Ships; Come Up From the Fields Father; Come Up From The Fields, Father; Come, Said My Soul; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry; Darest Thou Now O Soul; Darest Thou Now, O Soul; Debris; Delicate Cluster; Delicate Cluster; Despairing Cries; Dirge For Two Veterans; Drum-Taps; Earth! my Likeness!; Elemental Drifts; Europe, The 72d And 73d Years Of These States; Excelsior; Faces Facing West From California's Shores; France, The 18th Year Of These States; From Pent-up Aching Rivers; Full Of Life, Now; Give Me The Splendid, Silent Sun; God; Great Are The Myths; Had I the Choice; Here The Frailest Leaves Of Me; Hush'd Be the Camps Today; I Am He That Aches With Love; I Dream'd In A Dream; I Hear America Singing; I Heard You, Solemn-sweep Pipes Of The Organ; I Saw In Louisiana A Live Oak Growing; I Sing The Body Electric; I Sit And Look Out; I Thought I Was Not Alone; I Was Looking A Long While; In Cabin'd Ships At Sea; In Former Songs; In Midnight Sleep; Italian Music In Dakota; Joy, Shipmate, Joy!; Laws For Creations; Leaves Of Grass. A Carol Of Harvest For 1867; Lessons; Locations And Times; Long, Too Long America; Long, Too Long, O Land!; Look Down, Fair Moon; Manhattan Streets I Saunter'd, Pondering; Mannahatta; Me Imperturbe; Mediums; Miracles; Mother And Babe; Myself And Mine; Native Moments; Night On The Prairies; No Labor-Saving Machine; Not The Pilot; Now Finale To The Shore; Now List To My Morning's Romanza; O Bitter Sprig! Confession Sprig!; O Captain! My Captain!; O Hymen! O Hymenee!; O Living Always--Always Dying; O Me! O Life!; O Star Of France; O Sun Of Real Peace; O You Whom I Often And Silently Come; Of Him I Love Day And Night; Of The Terrible Doubt Of Apperarances; Of The Visage Of Things; Offerings; Old Ireland; On Journeys Through The States; On Old Man's Thought Of School; On The Beach At Night; On the Beach At Night Alone; On The Beach At Night, Alone; Once I Pass'd Through A Populous City; One Hour To Madness And Joy; One Song, America, Before I Go; One's Self I Sing; Or From That Sea Of Time; Or From That Sea Of Time; Other May Praise What They Like; Out From Behind His Mask; Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking; Out of the Rolling Ocean, The Crowd; Over The Carnage; Passage To India; Pensive And Faltering; Pensive On Her Dead Gazing, I Heard The Mother Of All; Perfections; Pioneers! O Pioneers!; Poem Of Remembrance For A Girl Or A Boy; Poems Of Joys; Portals; President Lincoln's Burial Hymn; Primeval My Love For The Woman I Love; Proud Music Of The Storm; Quicksand Years; Race Of Veterans; Reconciliation; Recorders Ages Hence; Respondez!; Rise, O Days; Roots And Leaves Themselves Alone; Salut Au Monde; Says; Scented Herbage Of My Breast; Sea-Shore Memories; Sing Of The Banner At Day-Break; So Long; Sometimes With One I Love; Song At Sunset; Song For All Seas, All Ships; Song of Myself, X; Song Of The Broad-Axe; Song Of The Exposition; Song Of The Open Road; Song Of The Redwood-Tree; Song Of The Universal; Souvenirs Of Democracy; Spirit Whose Work Is Done; Spontaneous Me; Starting From Paumanok; States!; That Music Always Round Me; The Artilleryman's Vision; The Base Of All Metaphysics; The Centerarian's Story; The Dresser; The Indications; The Last Invocation; The Mystic Trumpeter; The Prairie-Grass Dividing; The Singer In The Prison; The Sleepers; The World Below The Brine; The Wound Dresser; There Was A Child Went Forth; These, I, Singing In Spring; This Compost; This Dust Was Once The Man; Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling; Thou Reader; Thought; Thoughts; To A Certain Cantatrice; To A Foil'd European Revolutionaire; To A Historian; To A President; To Old Age; To Rich Givers; To The East And To The West; To The Garden The World; To The Man-of-War-Bird; To Thee, Old Cause!; To Think Of Time; To You; Unfolded Out Of The Folds; Unnamed Lands; Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night; Virgil Strange I Kept On The Field; Virginia--The West; Voices; Walt Whitman's Caution; Wandering At Morn; Warble Of Lilac-Time; We Two Boys Together Clinging; We Two-How Long We Were Fool'd; Weave In, Weave In, My Hardy Life; What Am I, After All?; What Weeping Face; When I Heard At The Close Of The Day; When I Heard the Learned Astronomer; When I Peruse The Conquer'd Fame; When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd; Who Is Now Reading This?; Who Learns My Lesson Complete?; Whoever You Are, Holding Me Now In Hand; With Antecedents; World, Take Good Notice; Year Of Meteors, 1859 '60; Year That Trembled; Years Of The Modern; Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours.

Movies and television:

A Noiseless Patient Spider (2009); A Poetic Experiment: Walt Whitman (2015); A su aire (1974); Actor's Choice (1970); Aliment Roots (2018); American Experience (2008); Amerikai anzix (1975); Amici Novum (2021); Ancient Aliens (2011); Beyond the Unknown (2019); Calamus Variations (2024); David Byrne's American Utopia (2020); Dead Poets Society (1989); Drum-Taps (2019); Facing West (2020); Intolerance (1916); Lo que cuento al viento (2008); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Maestro (2023); Manahatta (2011); Manhatta (1921); Messengers (2004); Middle Voices (2022); O Brooklyn! My Brooklyn! (2010); On the Trail of Mark Twain (1998); Plain-chant (1974); The Big Scary 'S' Word (2020); The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell (2016); This Is What You Shall Do (2017); Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age (1971); Whitman in the Woods. (2021); Your Favorite Story (1954).