Bromwich uses Mozart and Melville as contrast cases: Mozart shows obvious precocious exceptionality, and Melville's seafaring years clearly matter, whereas Shakespeare lacks a comparably decisive biographical hinge.
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"...before we started this officially, that I'm teaching a course on Melville next term."
"And I think you can say about Herman Melville that his years at sea were the thing that mattered to him much more than..."
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