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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... living and dead , who struggled here , have conse- crated it far above our poor power to add or detract . The world will little note nor long remember what we say here , but it can never forget what they did here . It is for us the living ...
... Living and the Dead ( Character ) 63 NOVEMBER 9 Never Forget ( Nights of Broken Glass ) 73 NOVEMBER 11 Long Endure ( Armistice Day ) 77 NOVEMBER 14 The Brave Men ( Ia Drang ) 84 NOVEMBER 15 A Great Civil War ( Virginia Wade ) 96 ...
... Living ( Weep No More ) 193 NOVEMBER 24 The Last Full Measure of Devotion ( Ulysses ) 196 NOVEMBER 25 Unfinished Work ( JFK ) 213 NOVEMBER 26 Shall Not Perish ( Beautiful and Brave ) 228 NOVEMBER 27 Highly Resolve ( Thanksgiving ) 251 ...
... living rooms during the evening news , and into the streets , starting with Memphis and Los Angeles . November is personal . If it were not , Lincoln's words would not have meant much at the time . Each listener had suffered some kind ...
... living elegy , a beautiful em- blem of intelligent , purposeful dignity . The murdered president's brother , a religious man , his world shattered , lived his own active elegy . Turning to the Greek tragic poets for help , he worked out ...
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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 |