November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIndiana University Press, 2001. nov. 9. - 344 oldal 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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... question , " Why ? " Elie Wiesel , a Holocaust survivor with what he calls a " wounded faith , " claims that the great questions have no intellectual answers . The answer to grief is hope . Milton's elegy , like Lincoln's , moves from ...
... question the meaning of those deaths as Milton lamented and questioned the death of Edward King . Where were ye Nymphs when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas ? That kind of question , which made the modern ...
... question the very past which All Saints ' Day relies upon . The shooting of Chaplain Howell , for example , probably did not happen in the way commemorated . In Gregory Coco's On the Blood- stained Field we find several disagreeing ...
... , was a mistake . The place where Lincoln stood was not in the National Cemetery at all . The question matters . If we Americans can't find Lincoln , we are lost . NOVEMBER 2 Our Fathers ( L. L. ) It is [ 18 ] NOVEMBER 1.
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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 |