November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIt 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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... cemetery but intends to dedicate a nation . The greatest battle on the North American continent has left thousands of men dead ; now more mothers , sisters , and wives are wearing black all across the United States , more vacant chairs ...
... cemetery on a hill , shaded by old trees . A Norwegian immigrant named Martin buys a section of four plots near a row of Civil War graves . His younger brother is with the American army in France , fighting a strange , horrible , and ...
... cemetery at Gettysburg . We are part of all we have met , says Tennyson — which , if true , means we can neither evade our heritage nor escape our place in history . " We will be remembered in spite of ourselves , " President Lincoln ...
... Cemetery . The wind is raw ; the streets are blown with dry leaves . You see , my children , Abraham Lincoln is one of our fathers , too , like the saints of the Church , like your grandfather , like the " fathers " of the country ...
... Cemetery , which says , in effect , that the traditional site , where the tall column now stands , 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 ...
Contents
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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 |