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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... remember what we say here , but it can never forget what they did here . It is for us the living , rather , to be dedicated here to the un- finished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced . It is rather for us ...
... remember , and by what they believe and do , future generations will write their anthems for the doomed youth of Owen's generation . They will do it in a world that is either a " long twilight struggle , " or a new birth of freedom — or ...
... remember together endures . What we remember together tells us who we are , and what we may be if we choose . An elegy mourns and hopes ; it is an expression of faith whose means is memory . Bleak with cold , death , and dry vestiges of ...
... remember the many sad anniversaries of this month as they come up on the calendar , and if I finish the month without becoming clinically depressed and wanting a new car , it will not be my fault . It will be because the steady ...
... remember where he stood to deliver his speech . The Gettysburg Address needs to be explained again , just as we need to find again the spot where Lincoln spoke . But my daughters and son are not here . As it sometimes seems with America ...
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 |