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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... grief is not assuaged by answers to the question , " Why ? " Elie Wiesel , a Holocaust survivor with what he calls a " wounded faith , " claims that the great questions have no intellectual answers . The answer to grief is hope ...
... grief and faith , a gray month of blank sky and 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 ...
... an 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.
Lincoln's Elegy at Gettysburg Kent Gramm. Therefore November is a month not only of grief but also of promise . That ... grieving its unthinkable death , and the unknown world ahead . Modernity was ripe in November 1863 when Abraham ...
... 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 ; it is in us . Though our ...
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 |