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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... stand as the deck slid away beneath him , water over him now , and now thrashing , gulping , swallowing . One of his friends imagined it well . In November of that year , John Milton wrote an elegy for Edward King , which he titled ...
... stand in darkened parlors all across the North , more fathers will never come back to their little sons and daughters again , and Abraham Lincoln must tell them why . On the speakers ' platform up on Cemetery Hill , Lincoln looks out ...
... standing expectantly ; and he speaks the most beautiful , memorable words of comfort , courage , and hope ever to have arisen from death , ever to have risen in the clear No- vember air . November 1918 The belief in reason and humane ...
... standing . She had mar- ried this blacksmith for love and followed him to the new world . His brother Karl will never rest in that family plot . He will return from the war alive , but he will go to the far north and spend the rest of ...
... stand for grief and faith , a gray month of blank sky and cold winds , beginning in remem- brance and ending in expectation — a month through whose strange beauty we all must pass and whose alien work must truly be our own . " The world ...
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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 |