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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... memory . Bleak with cold , death , and dry vestiges of a summery world which is over and done , November nevertheless reveals an austere beauty . This beauty must come from something greater than our sorrow and confusion , greater than ...
... memory . Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis , like Mary Todd Lincoln one of the most underestimated persons of her time , said , " if we don't care about our past , we can't have very much hope for the future . " Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy seemed ...
... memories and our parents ' memories through to the next generation , hoping that the natural strength in them can blossom in a better place and time — that the faith of our fathers can pass to our children transformed but untarnished ...
... memories . This weak generation must find strength to grieve , if it wishes to hope . " Who would not sing for Lycidas ? " Milton cried . One writes an elegy because one must , because nature weeps , and because beauty is a high comfort ...
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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 |