{"id":18693,"date":"2010-11-19T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=18693"},"modified":"2010-11-19T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T05:00:11","slug":"gettyburg-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/11\/19\/gettyburg-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Gettysburg Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/abraham-lincoln-gettysburg-pa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18696\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/abraham-lincoln-gettysburg-pa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/abraham-lincoln-gettysburg-pa.jpg 350w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/11\/abraham-lincoln-gettysburg-pa-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The only known photo of Lincoln after giving the Gettysburg address.\u00a0 The speech was so brief that it caught the photographer unawares.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On this date in 1863 Abraham Lincoln delivered the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gettysburg_Address\" target=\"_blank\">Gettysburg Address<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Frye in <em>The Educated Imagination<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I often think of a passage in Lincoln&#8217;s Gettysburg address: &#8220;The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.&#8221;\u00a0 The Gettysburg address is a great poem, and poets have been saying ever since Homer&#8217;s time that they were just following after the great deeds of the heroes, and that it was the deeds which were important and not what they said about them.\u00a0 So it was right, in a way, it was traditional, and tradition is very important in literature, for Lincoln to say what he did.\u00a0 And yet it really isn&#8217;t true.\u00a0 Nobody can remember the names and dates of battles unless they make some appeal to the imagination: that is, unless there is some literary reason for doing so.\u00a0 Everything that happens in time vanishes in time: it&#8217;s only the imagination that, like Proust, whom I quoted earlier, can see men as &#8220;giants in time.&#8221;\u00a0 (<em>CW<\/em> 21, 482)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only known photo of Lincoln after giving the Gettysburg address.\u00a0 The speech was so brief that it caught the photographer unawares. On this date in 1863 Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. Frye in The Educated Imagination: I often think of a passage in Lincoln&#8217;s Gettysburg address: &#8220;The world will little note nor long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anniversaries","category-educated-imagination"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gettysburg Address - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/11\/19\/gettyburg-address\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gettysburg Address - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The only known photo of Lincoln after giving the Gettysburg address.\u00a0 The speech was so brief that it caught the photographer unawares. 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