Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is Herman Melville’s 1866 collection of poems reflecting on the American Civil War, noted for its meditative, often ambivalent treatment of the conflict and its aftermath.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Herman Melville
authorOtherWork Clarel
Moby-Dick
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception initially mixed
firstEditionFormat print
form lyric poetry
narrative poetry
genre poetry
war poetry
hasPart “A Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Fight”
“In the Prison Pen”
“Lee in the Capitol”
“Malvern Hill”
“Shiloh: A Requiem”
“The Apparition”
“The Battle for the Mississippi”
“The College Colonel”
“The Conflict of Convictions”
“The Cumberland”
“The House-top”
“The March into Virginia”
The Martyr
surface form: “The Martyr”

“The Portent”
“The Scout toward Aldie”
“The Stone Fleet”
“The Surrender at Appomattox”
“The Swamp Angel”
historicalContext post–American Civil War Reconstruction era
language English
laterReception recognized as a major work of Civil War poetry
literaryMovement American Romanticism
literaryPeriod 19th-century American literature
mainSubject American Civil War
notableFor complex, often skeptical view of war
integration of poems with prose “Supplement” on Reconstruction
publicationYear 1866
publisher Harper & Brothers
setting United States during the American Civil War
structure collection of individual poems
theme memory and history
moral ambiguity of conflict
national reconciliation
war and its aftermath
tone ambivalent
meditative

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Herman Melville notableWork Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War