Three American Poets
Herman Melville - Author
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A unique collection of poems from three writers living under the shadow of the Civil War
Three great American poets, all of whom preferred the solitary life, and yet each responded, in very different ways, to the greatest social event of their times: the challenge of living in a country recovering from civil war. The selection from Melville aims to show the range of his shorter verse, from the public poet intensely concerned with the Civil War and its meaning for humanity, to the private poet, as he withdrew from the eyes of the world. Robinson's quintessential and much anthologised famous poems can be read set alongside the less widely-read pieces also included here. Tuckerman is a neglected poet, whose poems reflect his friendship with Tennyson and his grief for the loss of his wife. Introduction Table of Dates Further Reading Herman Melville Preface The Portent Misgivings The Conflict of Convictions The March into Virginia, Ending in the First Manassas Ball's Bluff, A Reverie A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight Shiloh, A Requiem Malvern Hill Stonewall Jackson, Mortally Wounded at Chancellorsville Gettysburg The House-Top, A Night Piece On the Photograph of a Corps Commander The Swamp Angel The College Colonel At the Cannon's Mouth, Destruction of the Ram Albermarle by the Torpedo-launch "The Coming Storm," A Picture by S. R. Gifford, and owned by E. B. Included in the N. A. Exhibition, April, 1865 The Released Rebel Prisoner A Grave Near Petersburg, Virginia On the Slain Collegians The Fortitude of the North, under the Disaster of the Second Manassas On the Men of Maine, Killed in the Victory of Baton Rouge, Louisiana Inscription: For Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg On the Slain at Chickamauga On Sherman's Men, Who Fell in the Assault of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia Commemorative of a Naval Victory The Maldive Shark The Berg (A Dream) The Enviable Isles (From "Rammon") Billy in the Darbies Timoleon (394 BC) The Ravaged Villa Monody Lone Founts Art Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century In a Church of Padua The Attic Landscape Greek Masonry Greek Architecture Immolated When Forth the Shepherd Leads the Flock Trophies of Peace, Illinois in 1840 Field Asters The Avatar The American Aloe on Exhibition Inscription: For a Boulder near the spot... Rose Window Thy Aim, Thy Aim? Camoëns, I (Before) Camoëns in the Hospital, 2 (After) A Spirit Appeared to Me Pontoosuc
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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