Herman Melville

Books by Herman Melville

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

Civil War Poems

Introduction by Richard Howard Cox
This reprint of an 1866 volume of poems by the author of Moby Dick and Billy Budd includes four essays showing why Melville's verse with its unconventional linking of literary form and political-military history remains misunderstood and neglected.Princeton University historian James M. McPherson...
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