November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIndiana University Press, 09.11.2001 - 344 Seiten 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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... hundred thousand Union dead . We may 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 ...
... hundred years ago , and considerably more horrified . We have Kennedy's assassination on tape , and can replay it in color , the spraying red of his blood enough to make anyone with feelings wonder what it all means , and perhaps even ...
... hundred years later , by the time of John F. Ken- nedy's assassination in November 1963 , that world was clearly gone . De- spite their differences , the 1860s and 1960s were mirror decades : both times of civil war , of passions and ...
... hundred years a century of grief would not be an exaggeration . Certainly it was a century of death , violence , disillusion- ment , chaos , and brutality — perhaps the worst century in recorded his- tory . It hasn't simply gone away ...
... hundreds of people were killed . After three days during which mobs shattered the police force , looted , and in drunken rages lynched black people and burned an or- phanage for children of color , trains arrived carrying men who had ...
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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 |