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Table of Contents: “…Biographical -- Double vision -- The sound of sense -- Patriot and war poet -- Friend and countryman.…”

Table of Contents: “…Initiation -- The Bourgeois state of mind -- Symbolism in its profounder sense -- II. War poets by the Waste Moor -- Poems cold and passionate as the dawn -- Tragic generations -- III. …”

Table of Contents: “…The sober Roman : the world city -- From village to empire : Roman holidays without end -- The Pax Romana : Augustus, first Emperor -- The ritual of daily life : masters of war -- Poets and propagandists : homage to Italy -- The gods of Rome : Pompeii : a self portrait -- End of greatness : the metropolis -- A persistent presence : seedbed of Christianity.…”

Table of Contents: “…Includes -- Title [Author]: War poet [Sidney Keyes] -- Paper soldier [Bulat Okudzhava] -- Wars [Carl Sandburg] -- War songs [traditional, Ojibwa] -- Do not weep [Stephen Crane] -- The rambling soldier -- The female drummer -- Boney -- Hanging on the old barbed wire [traditional, English] -- Pick a fern, pick a fern [Bunno] -- [from] A German war primer -- War has been given a bad name -- To my countrymen [Bertolt Brecht] -- Roman wall blues [W.H. …”

Table of Contents: “…Volume 1:1819-1851 -- The flight of the patrician Wastrel and his second son: 1830 -- Herman Melvill's world, 1819-1830: Manhattan, Albany, Boston -- "The terrors of death": Albany, 1831-1832 -- The "cholera year": 1832-1833 -- In the shadow of the young furrier: Herman as clerk, 1833-1835 -- Clerk, farmer, teacher, polemicist: 1836 -- May 1838 -- Herman in Lansingburgh: full-grown and useless, May 1838 -- May 1839 -- Sailor and schoolteacher: 1839-1840 -- West to seek his fortune: 1840 -- The first year of whaling: 1841 -- Whaler and runaway: 1842 -- Beachcomber and whaler: 1842-1843 -- Lahaina and Honolulu: 1843 -- Ordinary seaman on the United States: 1843-1844 -- Home but not home: October 1844 -- The sailor, the orator, and the grand contested election: 1844 -- Catching up: 1844 -- The sailor and the writing desk: 1844-1845 -- A manuscript but no publisher: 1845 -- A modern Crusoe: 1846 -- International author and the man of the family: 1846 -- The resurrection of Toby: 1846 -- Winning Elizabeth Shaw and winning the Harpers: 1846 -- Office-seeker and reviewer: 1847 -- Triumphant author, triumphant lover: 1847 -- Scandal and marriage: 1847 -- Newlyweds in New York City: 1847 -- Mardi as island-hopping symposium: 1847-1848 -- Dollars be damned: "the red year forty-eight" -- Malcolm and the fate of Mardi: 1849 -- Redburn and White-jacket: summer 1849 -- London and a peek at continental life: fall 1849 -- The breaching of Mocha Dick: January 1850 -- Hiding out on the cannibal island: February -- June 1850 -- Pittsfield and Hawthorne: June -- 7 August 1850 -- Hawthorne and his Mosses: 8 August -- September 1850 -- Writing at Arrowhead: October 1850 -- mid-January 1851 -- Damned by dollars: mid January -- 1 May 1851 -- The final dash at The whale: May -- September 1851 -- Melville in triumph: The whale and the kraken, September -- November 1851 -- Volume 2: 1851-1891 -- Crowned and blindsided: November -- December 1851 -- "Mad Christmas": December 1851 -- The kraken version of Pierre: November -- December 1851 -- Melville crosses the Rubicon: January 1852 -- Riichard Bentley: The whale and Pierre, January -- May 1852 -- Fool's paradise and the furies unleashed: June -- September 1852 -- The isle of the cross: September 1852 -- June 1853 -- The magazinist: idealist turned would-be stoic, July 1853 -- January 1854 -- The shift away from Herman and Arrowhead: January -- March 1854 -- Tortoises and Israel Potter: 1854 -- "Benito cereno": early 1855 -- The confidence man's masquerade: Melville as national satirist, June 1855 -- January 1856 -- Foreclosing on friendship: confession and shame, February -- October 1856 -- Liverpool and the levant: late 1856 -- February 1857 -- Rome to Liverpool, and home: February -- April 1857 -- "Statues in Rome": May 1857 -- February 1858 -- "The South Seas": March 1858 -- Spring 1859 -- The poet and the last lecture, "Travel": summer 1859 -- early 1960 -- An epic poet on the Metoer: May -- October 1860 -- The dream of Florence, a state funeral, and war: November 1860 -- December 1861 -- A humble quest for an aesthetic credo: January -- April 1862 -- Farewell to Arrowhead and the overthrow of Jehu: April -- December 1862 -- Displacements: January -- June 1863 -- Wartime second honeymoon and Manhattan: summer -- fall 1863 -- The war poet's scout toward Aldie: 1864 -- Two years -- of war and dubious peace: 1865-1866 -- Battle-pieces: poet, poems, reviewers, 1866 -- The deputy inspector amid domestic maelstroms: 1867 -- A snug harbor for the Melvilles: late 1867-1868 -- The man who had known Hawthorne: 1869 -- Wall Street, and "Jerusalem": 1870 -- The last mustering of the clan and "The wilderness": 1871 -- Death, Death, and flight to a snug harbor: 1872 -- A family in disarray, and "Mar Saba": 1873 -- The new generation, and "Bethlehem": 1874-1875 -- Clarel: Melville's centennial epic, 1876 -- "Old fogy" and imaginary companions: 1877-1879 -- The shadow at the feasts: 1880-1885 -- Fragments in a writing desk: 1886-1891 -- In and out of the house of the tragic poet: 1886-1891.…”

Table of Contents: “…Drawing-room warriors and combatants : Gentlemen of peace and war: The "elevated" view -- Stedman, Taylor & Co. ; War poets on sea and land -- H.H. Brownell and N.S. …”