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Tag: The Conflict of Convictions

The Battle of Gettysburg FEATURED

CR Episode 146: Melville and the Civil War, Part I

17 October 2022 Critical Readings

In this first episode of a two-part examination of Melville’s poetic response to the Civil War, the panel reads two poems from his first poetry collection, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866): ‘The Conflict of Convictions’ and ‘Gettysburg’.

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