Premium Content Drum Taps and Battle Pieces: The Civil War Poetry of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville
By Barret Buchholz - April 10, 2005
Walt Whitman and Herman Melville were both affected by the Civil War to such a degree that they each published a volume of poetry concerning the conflict. Although both men confront similar issues and feelings, particular in their poems about death, they do so through means as significantly different as each man's Civil War experience. Whitman…
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