November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIndiana University Press, 2001-11-09 - 344 psl. It begins with the search for hallowed ground, the exact place from which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. In bleak November, Kent Gramm makes a pilgrimage to the most famous battleground in American history and over the course of a month transforms his search into a discovery of the meaning of Lincoln's elegy for America's identity. "The month begins with things that perish. But ultimately, November is a journey of hope, as was Lincoln's journey to Gettysburg. So too I will journey to Gettysburg in these pages. Like Lincoln's fellow citizens, I go there to assuage personal grief, to find answers; and I hope, for me as for them, that my personal sorrows become a vehicle for larger answers and a larger purpose. Lincoln addressed their grief, why not mine; he gave his generation purpose, why not ours." |
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... killed only a week before the Armistice in a heroic little battle which , full of sound and fury , signified nothing except futility . No John Milton exists to write Wilfred Owen's elegy . That is altogether fitting and proper , because ...
... killed in Dallas , Texas , by nobody in particular . Americans , collec- tively , are as disoriented and disheartened as Lincoln's people had been exactly one hundred years ago , and considerably more horrified . We have Kennedy's ...
... killing zones , unwillingness to take unlimited ad- vantage of the tools or chances of war . Until Gettysburg , volunteers who fought the Civil War intended to fight honorably , fairly , courageously , with restraint and for good ...
... killed . After three days during which mobs shattered the police force , looted , and in drunken rages lynched black people and burned an or- phanage for children of color , trains arrived carrying men who had faced Robert E. Lee's ...
... killed Howell . Another says the chaplain ascended the steps amid a " rain of bullets . " The man whose memoir refers to the last witness concludes , " Now the tablet at the foot of the steps says he was ' Ruthlessly shot down while ...
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Brought Forth Pen and Sword | 30 |
NOVEMBER 4 | 41 |
NOVEMBER 5 | 63 |
NOVEMBER 9 | 73 |
NOVEMBER 14 | 84 |
NOVEMBER 15 | 96 |
NOVEMBER 16 | 106 |
NOVEMBER 22 | 182 |
NOVEMBER 23 | 193 |
NOVEMBER 25 | 213 |
NOVEMBER 26 | 228 |
NOVEMBER 27 | 251 |
NOVEMBER 29 | 266 |
NOVEMBER 30 | 273 |
Modernism and Postmodernism | 285 |
NOVEMBER 17 | 119 |
The Gettysburg Address | 131 |
NOVEMBER 20 | 162 |
NOVEMBER 21 | 171 |
Elegy Written in a Country ChurchYard | 298 |
Notes on the Sources | 305 |