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Battle-pieces and aspects of the war

Battle-pieces and aspects of the war

Melville, Herman

Paperback

Poetry CriticismGeneral PoetryGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 9389247608
ISBN13: 9789389247602
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 29 2019
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Battlefields rarely fit into prose. Hear the cannons between lines. In Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Herman Melville turns the American Civil War of the 1861 1865 United States into a hard-edged war poetry collection: compact scenes, grief, and moral weather. These poems move from headline moments of American Civil War battles to the quieter costs carried by families and survivors, tracing soldiers sacrifice and loss without sentimentality. The range is national: rivers and railway lines, camps and capitals, awe beside paperwork. Written as nineteenth century American verse yet direct, the book reads like a historical poetry anthology for anyone who wants the conflict felt, not summarised. Melville writes with a seafarer's eye for pressure and consequence, testing union and confederacy themes against conscience, faith, and national purpose. Some pieces strike like dispatches; others slow into elegy, weighing the price of command. The sequence also looks beyond surrender into Reconstruction era America, where victory does not instantly become peace. For civil war history readers it offers a period voice shaped by the war itself; for American literature students it sits in sharp conversation with Walt Whitman war poems, expanding classic American war literature with a darker, argumentative music. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Whether you come for poetry, history, or a shelf of American classics, Battle-Pieces belongs close at hand.

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