{"product_id":"battle-pieces-and-aspects-of-the-war-civil-war-poems-paperback","title":"Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHerman Melville\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A brilliant, magisterial verse opus . . . a masterpiece with virtually no readers.\"--\u003ci\u003eCivil War Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHerman Melville\u003c\/b\u003e (1819-1891) stopped writing fiction after the publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Confidence Man: His Masquerade \u003c\/i\u003ein 1857; as he entered his forties, he turned to poetry as his literary avocation. His first published book of poems was \u003ci\u003eBattle-Pieces and Aspects of the War\u003c\/i\u003e (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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMelville 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 General Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia in 1864. And his position within his family, whose members were involved in almost every aspect of the war, was close enough to allow him a rare vantage point on this country's greatest conflict. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut, \u003ci\u003eBattle-Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e is anything but epic. Rather than celebratory, the tone of Melville's poem is grievous and disconsolate. \"Unmindful, without purposing to be, of consistency\" (as Melville puts it in his preface), the poems do not attempt to paint a broad picture of the whole of the war, but rather represent disjoint aspects, each faithful to Melville's impulsive, modern, yet realist view of the tragedy.\u003cbr\u003eThis facsimile edition of \u003ci\u003eBattle-Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e includes 72 poems on almost every major campaign, battle, and event; Melville's own detailed historical notes and his supplementary essay on Reconstruction; and a new introduction by Lee Rust Brown, who teaches English at the University of Utah and is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Emerson Museum.\u003c\/i\u003e An American classic is thus available once again.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis facsimile edition of a Battle-Pieces includes 72 poems on almost every major campaign, battle, and event; Melville's own detailed historical notes and his supplementary essay on Reconstruction; and a new introduction by Lee Rust Brown, who teaches English at the University of Utah and is the author of The Emerson Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 8.16 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45422519746662,"sku":"9780306806551","price":29.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/MDdGcFBMUDZQc2ovK29OWVRXQ2lwQT09.webp?v=1775537416","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/battle-pieces-and-aspects-of-the-war-civil-war-poems-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}