num_pages: 272
description: Poems from "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the Civil War Poems (1866)." Herman Melville, best known as the author of "Moby Dick or the Whale," was also a poet, publishing four books of poetry of which "Battle-Pieces" was the first. It is regarded by many critics as a work as ambitious and rich as any of his novels.
language: English
title: Battle Pieces: The Civil War Poems of Herman Melville
titlecomplete: Battle Pieces: The Civil War Poems of Herman Melville
genres: Classics, History, American, War, American Civil War, Civil War, Poetry
ratings_count: 182
publisher: Book Sales