Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War - Tapa blanda

Melville Herman (1819-1891) was an American novelist and poet, born in New York. He left school after the failure and the death of his father’s business in 1832 and was largely autodidact. Devouring Shakespeare, he was a lot inspired by his style. He published Moby-Dick or The Whale in Britain, in 1851, and later in New York. The work is an epic sea story and nowadays it is one of the great American novels. The opening line “call me Ishmael” is one of the most famous and recognizable opening line in western literature. 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.