Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Herman Melville
- First Published: 1866
- Type of Work: Book of poems
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Civil War, War, Soldiers, Labor unions, Battles, Confederate States of America, Generals
The Poems
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of seventy-two poems that depict key episodes and individuals of the Civil War as well as the temperament of the American people during the great conflict. Herman Melville arranges the poems in a chronological order so that the collection becomes an impressionistic history of the war delivered in verses rather than in prose. The first poem of the volume, “The Portent,” depicts the hanging of John Brown, the abolitionist who, in 1859, failed in his attempt to start a slave rebellion by capturing the United...
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