November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIndiana University Press, 9 de nov. 2001 - 344 pàgines 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. |
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... beauty of time and dedicated to the mystery of eternity . Each kind of elegy blooms in sorrow from the soil of the past ; its beauty remains for tomorrow . November is nature's elegy . Let the month itself stand for grief and faith , a ...
... beauty of Gray's Elegy marked its melancholy upon Abraham Lin- coln . From it he learned that an elegy answers beauty with beauty . Such is the source of an elegy's hope ; such is the source of its immortality . The elegy draws its ...
... beauty moves us strangely . These stories are ours , and they are worth more than the gold in Fort Knox . They intimate a reality beyond our perception . Where their beauty comes from is hard to say . A sculptor shapes the clay , but ...
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