The Conflict of Convictions – Critical Readings

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’.