Selections From Battle-Pieces And Aspects Of The War

Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

by Herman Melville

This collection of poems offers a kaleidoscopic glimpse into the American Civil War, exploring shifting emotions, unresolved traumas, and the ambivalent reflections of post-war America. While not a systematic chronicle, the poems draw inspiration from news sources, family accounts, and Melville's own experiences, providing a unique and multifaceted perspective on the conflict.

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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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