Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War Poems by Herman Melville

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War Poems



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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War Poems Herman Melville
Page: 288
ISBN: 9780306806551
Publisher: Da Capo Press

Herman Melville (1819-1891) stopped writing fiction after the publication of The Confidence Man: His Masquerade ] in 1857; as he entered his forties, he turned to poetry as his literary avocation. His first published book of poems was Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866), a meditation on the Civil War in short lyric and narrative verses, and a work as ambitious and rich as any that issued from his pen. Melville was well acquainted with the war. He made many trips south to visit his cousin Henry Gansevoort, a Union officer--on one such trip, he was active in an unsuccessful pursuit of Confederate raider John Mosby. He had met Abraham Lincoln in Washington, and called upon ... MORE EBOOKS:







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