... in Chicago that Jean Toomer began to broaden his interests in literature. Jean Toomer was greatly influenced by the novel Dante's Inferno. Toomer was also greatly affected by Herman Melville's Moby Dick to such a degree that he actually compared himself to Ishamael by having turned failure to triumph (King). Jean Toomer wrote a few articles for The New York Call in 1919 and ... ...

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