Please help with homework Moby-Dick: One contemporary reviewer complained that Moby-Dick was

One contemporary reviewer complained that Moby-Dick was an “intellectual chowder of romance, philosophy, natural history, fine writing, good feeling, bad sayings…” Another early critic described Melville as containing two writers: “the one sensible, sagacious, observant, graphic, and producing admirable matter—the other maundering, driveling, subject to paroxysms, cramps, and total collapse, and penning exceeding many pages of unaccountable ‘bosh’.” Are these criticisms in any way justified? If so, how has Moby-Dick transcended its flaws to become and remain a masterpiece?