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"Herman Melville (1819-1891) stopped writing fiction after the publication of The Confidence Man: His Masquerade ] in 1857; as he entered his forties, he turned to poetry as his literary avocation. Hi"
After publishing five novels, some of which flourished and others that floundered, Melville turned his pen to poetry. Melville based his Civil War poems on firsthand experience, and rather than glorify battle, he depicts the horrors and the waste of it.
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Svein Olnes
reviewed Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War Poems on August 21, 2015
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War Poems
Okay, Melville, I give up. I read about 250 pages of this, enjoying very little of it, but now I have to stop. Your verse is mostly vague, forced, unrhythmic, and overly verbose. It doesn't seem possible that a contemporaneous poetic account of something as epic, tragic and fascinating as the Civil War could be boring, but somehow you managed it. Your fiction - challenging but often rewarding - may not have brought you the fame and fortune you desired during your lifetime, but you should have stuck with it. Because you were certainly not a poet.
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