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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... president had alluded to the coming season of Advent . But now hope is dust under the wheels of the flag - draped caisson ( an imitation of Lincoln's funeral ) , as it slowly rolls past the stunned and weeping people waiting by the ...
... president of the United States . The rest of that decade would demonstrate the difference . How eras respond to trag- edy shows what those eras are made of , and how one differs from another . The 1860s and the 1960s were very different ...
... 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 an energetic faith that combined old verities with his consciousness of absurdity and ...
... president actually delivered the Ad- dress is not known , I will try to find out . It will give me something to do . True , I will be forced to remember the many sad anniversaries of this month as they come up on the calendar , and if I ...
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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 |