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Battle-pieces and aspects of the war / by Herman Melville ; new introduction by Lee Rust Brown.

Title
Battle-pieces and aspects of the war / by Herman Melville ; new introduction by Lee Rust Brown.
Author
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Publication
New York : Da Capo Press, 1995.

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Description
xvi, x, 272 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
This 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.
Alternative Title
Battle-pieces
Subject
  • 1861-1877
  • Reconstruction > Poetry
  • War poetry, American
  • United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Poetry
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Poetry
Note
  • "An unabridged republication of the edition first published in New York in 1866 [by Harper]"--T.p. verso.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
030680655X
LCCN
^^^95020053^
OCLC
  • 32589079
  • SCSB-11046734
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library