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Tag: Stonewall Jackson

Confederate Surrender at Appomattox FEATURED

CR Episode 147: Melville and the Civil War, Part II

24 October 2022 Critical Readings

The panel concludes a two-part survey of Melville’s reading of the Civil War as viewed through his Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) by discussing poems on Stonewall Jackson, the Surrender at Appomattox, and post-war America.

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Herman Melville FEATURED

CR Episode 71: Accepting Complexity in Melville’s Poetry

22 March 2021 Critical Readings

The panel analyses contradiction in Melville’s earliest and latest published poems: three selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War–his first collection–and “Art” from Timoleon and Other Ventures, published only four months before his death.

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