Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, (1866). By Herman Melville: Poetry (Original Classics)
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- 14 november 2016
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Herman Melville
"De Amerikaanse schrijver Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) schreef de literaire klassieker Moby Dick. Naast romans schreef Melville ook poëzie en korte verhalen. Op bol.com vind je alle boeken van Herman Melville.
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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) is the first book of poetry published by American author Herman Melville. The volume is dedicated "To the Memory of the Three Hundred Thousand Who in the War For the Maintenance of the Union Fell Devotedly Under the Flag of Their Country" and its 72 poems deal with the battles and personalities of the American Civil War and their aftermath. Also included are Notes and a Supplement in prose in which Melville sets forth his thoughts on how the Post-war Reconstruction should be carried out.Critics at the time were at best respectful and often sharply critical of Melville's unorthodox style. The book had sold only 486 copies by 1868 and recovered barely half of its publications costs.Not until the latter half of the twentieth century did Battle-Pieces become regarded as one of the most important group of poems on the Civil War.Battle-Pieces is made up of 72 short lyric and narrative poems grouped into two sections. The first and longer sequence is centered on battles, but the emphasis is on taking stock of the results and on the personalities of the officers who led them. The second, shorter series is made up of elegies, epitaphs, and requiems.[5]The opening poem is "The Portent," a meditation on the hanging of the abolitionist John Brown:Hanging from the beam,Slowly swaying (such the law),Gaunt the shadow on your green,Shenandoah!The cut is on the crown(Lo, John Brown),And the stabs shall heal no more.Hidden in the capIs the anguish none can draw;So your future veils its face,Shenandoah!But the streaming beard is shown(Weird John Brown),The meteor of the war.Other poems include: "A Requiem For Soldiers Lost In Ocean Transports"; "The Martyr Indicative of the Passion of the People on the 15th of April 1865"; "The Frenzy In The Wake Sherman's Advance Through The Carolinas"; "The March To The Sea"; "Look-Out Mountain The Night Fight"; "Shiloh A Requiem"; "A Utilitarian View Of The Monitor's Fight"; "The Conflict Of Convictions"; "On the Slain at Chickamauga.".........Herman Melville(August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last thirty years. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style: the vocabulary is rich and original, a strong sense of rhythm infuses the elaborate sentences, the imagery is often mystical or ironic, and the abundance of allusion extends to Scripture, myth, philosophy, literature, and the visual arts.Born in New York City as the third child of a merchant in French dry goods, Melville's formal education ended abruptly after his father died in 1832, leaving the family in financial straits. Melville briefly became a schoolteacher before he took to sea in 1839 as a common sailor on a merchant ship. In 1840 he signed aboard the whaler Acushnet for his first whaling voyage, but jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. After further adventures, he returned to Boston in 1844. His first book, Typee (1845), a highly romanticized account of his life among Polynesians, became such a best-seller that he worked up a sequel, Omoo (1847). These successes encouraged him to marry Elizabeth Shaw, of a prominent Boston family, but were hard to sustain. His first novel not based on his own experiences, Mardi (1849), is a sea narrative that develops into a philosophical allegory, but was not well received. Redburn (1849), a story of life on a merchant ship, and his 1850 expose of harsh life aboard a Man-of-War, White-Jacket yielded warmer reviews but not financial security....
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