Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
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Melville's poems are a powerful indictment of war, but they also celebrate the courage and resilience of those who fight in it. The poems are full of vivid imagery and powerful language, and they offer a unique perspective on one of the most important events in American history.Book Details
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Herman Melville
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Melville's growing literary ambition showed in Moby-Dick (1851), which took nearly a year and a half to write, but it did not find an audience and critics scorned his psychological novel Pierre: or, T...
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