Classics Calendar for August 1

This is a brig, a two-masted sailing ship, like the Pilgrim
about which Richard Henry Dana, Jr. wrote in Two
Years Before the Mast. (Melville's fictional Pequod
in Moby Dick had three masts.)

Here are today's milestones:

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Born on this day:

Richard Henry Dana (1815; died January 6, 1882) American writer; Two Years before the Mast

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Herman Melville (1819; died September 28, 1891) American novelist, short story writer, and poet whose best known works include Typee; Moby Dick; Billy Budd; "Bartleby, the Scrivener"

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Paul Horgan (1903; died March 8, 1995) American author; Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History; Lamy of Santa Fe; Pulitzer Prize for History (1955, 1976)

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Died on this day:

Theodore Roethke (1963; born May 25, 1908) American poet; The Waking; The Lost Son; The Far Field; Words for the Wind; Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1954)

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Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1999; born November 23, 1897) Indian Bengali-English writer; The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian; The Continent of Circe (essays)

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