November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIndiana University Press, 09/11/2001 - 344 páginas 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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... cold water streaming along the deck , soaking the knees of his trousers , rising , until the planks were gone and he knelt in the sea as it washed around his waist , then his chest . Had he looked , he would have seen the ship's rail ...
... cold and salty , it enclosed him ; he gasped upwards , perhaps unconsciously trying to 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 ...
... 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 is different now , " John F. Kennedy said on a clear , cold ...
... cold , death , and dry vestiges of a summery world which is over and done , November nevertheless reveals an austere beauty . This beauty must come from something greater than our sorrow and confusion , greater than the evidence of dead ...
... cold and gray ; leaves are dead on the ground , the flowers of the witch hazel wither . At the end , snow comes , and the world can begin again . November begins in grief and ends in hope . It is the drear month of faith . November ...
Índice
1 | |
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 |