The Columbia Book of Civil war Poetry

Description

This is a used book in good condition. It looks like it might have gotten a slight bit wet on a few of the pages and front cover at one point. Otherwise the book is in good condition with no other markings.
Taken from inside front cover:
From the time of the conflict to the present day, the Civil War has been engraved in the collective memory of Americas, inspiring a legion of poetic sentiments from Union and Confederate soldiers, as well as from America's finest men and women poets both black and white. Nineteenth-century pets such as Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote notable works on a subject all too close to their hearts and minds; but so too have such formidable recent writers as John Updike and Derek Walcott.
Yet this rich tradition of Civil War
poetry
-spanning more than a
century
and a half-has never before been chronicled in one comprehensive volume. Collected here are the horrors of war, the common notability of the soldiers taking part, the moral fervor of abolition, the eerie stillness of the field after battle, and Lincoln's legacy-all recorded in verse and dramatically illustrated by photographs from Matthew Brady
Collection
of the National Archives.
Artfully assembled by Richard Marius, noted novelist and historian, The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry includes classics of the genre as well as rare period pieces by African Americas and women, and norther and southern patriotic verse and songs. Marius paints the background of the conflict and its literature in his lively introduction, and prefaces each
poem
with a compelling vignette. What emerges from these pages is a deep sense of the anger of the war's participants, their yearning for peace, and overall an
unparalleled
pageant of the war in all its power and sentimentality.
Hardback- 543 pages