November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIndiana University Press, 9.11.2001 г. - 344 страници 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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... field of that war . We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live . It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this . But , in a ...
... fields where the red battle flags of the Confederacy waved in the summer sunshine . They are not far away now . The war is still on . What the young men who defended Cemetery Hill did then , he must do now -- but with words [ 3 ] ...
... austere beauty . This beauty must come from something greater than our sorrow and confusion , greater than the evidence of dead leaves and brown fields . Therefore November is a month not only of grief but [ 8 ] NOVEMBER.
... fields of Gettysburg . We saw the grim batteries and weatherstained and dusty soldiers tramp- ing into our leading streets .... There was some terrific fighting between the regulars [ that is , soldiers ] and the insurgents .... men ...
... Field we find several disagreeing stories — all told by eyewitnesses . According to one , Chaplain Howell stopped on the steps to look toward the Confederates coming up the street and was " struck in the forehead by one of their bullets ...
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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 |