Hunting

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And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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Topic

Obsession Hunting Whales Charismatic megafauna Animals

Author

Herman Melville

Source

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 36.

Current Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 36.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

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Topic

Hunting Human nature

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

Oliver Twist

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. "Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress." Bentley's Miscellany. London: Richard Bentley, July 1837, issue 5, ch. 10.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Penguin, 2003, ch. 10.

Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

William Cowper

On hunting.

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Topic

Hunting Man and animals

Author

William Cowper

Source

The Garden The Task

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1785 1780s 18th century

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Original Citation

Cowper, William. The Task. London: Joseph Johnson, 1785, bk. 3.

Current Citation

Cowper, William. "The Task." William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems, edited by James Sambrook. Routledge, 2016, bk. 3.

The chase, the sport of kings;
image of war, without its guilt.

William Somerville

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Topic

Hunting

Author

William Somerville

Source

The Chace

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1735 1730s 18th century

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Citation

Somervile, William. The Chace. London: G. Hawkins/Dublin: R. Gunne and R. Owen, 1735.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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Topic

Hunting

Author

Joseph Wood Krutch

Genre

Nature writing Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Krutch, Joseph Wood. "Reverence for Life: The Vandal and the Sportsman." The Great Chain of Life. Houghton Mifflin, 1956.