Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
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Herman Melville's "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" is a collection of poems that explores the American Civil War through the lens of personal experience and second-hand accounts. Inspired by print news sources, family stories, and his own observations, Melville captures the shifting moods and emotions of a nation at war. The poems offer a kaleidoscopic view of the conflict, reflecting on themes of loss, trauma, and the complexities of the post-war era.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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