Remembrances and Celebrations A Book of Eulogies, Elegies, Letters, and Epitaphs,9780375701252

Remembrances and Celebrations A Book of Eulogies, Elegies, Letters, and Epitaphs

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ISBN13: 9780375701252
ISBN10: 0375701257
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-11-14
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary

This rich anthology of memorial tributes serves as a welcome reminder that, although words cannot necessarily assuage grief, they can provide tremendous comfort and perspective during our times of loss. The likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Benjamin Franklin, W.H. Auden and Diana, Princess of Wales, as well as ordinary folk from the seventeenth century to the present are mourned and celebrated in the memorable eulogies, condolence letters, poems and epitaphs collected in these pages. New to the paperback edition are eulogies of writer Andre Dubus, by his son Andre Dubus III, and of John F. Kennedy, Jr., by his uncle Edward M. Kennedy.

Author Biography

Jill Werman Harris lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction xv
I. Eulogies 1(158)
T.S. Eliot
3(4)
Sir Rupert Hart-Davis
W.H. Auden
7(4)
Stephen Spender
Hilda Stegner
11(3)
Wallace Stegner
E. B. White
14(3)
Peter De Vries
Dashiell Hammett
17(3)
Lillian Hellman
Joseph Brodsky
20(2)
Anderei Bitov
Agatha Christie
22(3)
William Collins
Mammy Caroline Barr
25(2)
William Faulkner
Anais Nin
27(3)
Henry Miller
Rupert Brooke
30(2)
Winston Churchill
Randall Jarrel
32(3)
Robert Lowell
Andrew Goodman
35(4)
Ralph Engelman
Ogden Nash
39(3)
S. J. Perelman
Katherine Anne Porter
42(3)
Robert Penn Warren
Duke Ellington
45(4)
Stanley Dance
Paul Robeson
49(4)
Paul Robeson, Jr.
James Michener
53(5)
William Livingston
Malcolm X
58(3)
Ossie Davis
Yitzhak Rabin
61(3)
King Hussein
Yitzhak Rabin
64(2)
Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof
A.Bartlett Giamatti
66(3)
Marcus Giamatti
Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.
69(4)
Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
73(2)
David Dinkins
Daniel Webster
75(4)
Amasa McCoy
Raphael Soyer
79(3)
Chaim Gross
Robert Kennedy
82(4)
Edward Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
86(2)
Maurice Tempelsman
Clara M. Hale
88(2)
Reverend James A. Forbes, Jr.
Terence MacSwiney
90(2)
Eamon De Valera
George Burns
92(2)
Irving Fein
Laurence Olivier
94(3)
Bernard Levin
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
97(3)
Edward Everett
Robert Gwathmey
100(3)
Charles Gwathmey
Stephen Bantu Biko
103(4)
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Six Murdered Children
107(2)
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Mark Schorer
109(2)
Alfred Kazin
Medgar Evers
111(3)
Roy Wilkins
Karl Marx
114(3)
Friedrich Engels
Lillian Hellman
117(3)
William Styron
Lillian Hellman
120(2)
Jack Koontz
Jerry Garcia
122(3)
Robert Hunter
Jackie Robinson
125(2)
Reverend Jesse Jackson
Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi
127(3)
Jawaharlal Nehru
Benjamin Franklin
130(3)
Mark Twain
Leonard Bernstein
133(3)
Ned Rorem
George Balanchine
136(2)
Arthur Gold
Robert Fizdale
Diana, Princess of Wales
138(4)
Earl Spencer
William Edgett Smith
142(3)
Calvin Trillin
Jim Henson
145(3)
Frank Oz
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr.
148(5)
Edward Kennedy
Andre Dubus
153(6)
Andre Dubus III
II. Letters 159(82)
Major Sullivan Ballou to Sarah Ballou
161(2)
Benjamin Franklin to Elizabeth Hubbard
163(2)
Horace Greeley to Margaret Fuller
165(3)
Marsilio Ficino to Bernardo Bembo
168(2)
Julius Rosenberg to Manny Bloch
170(2)
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to Their Children
172(1)
George Bernard Shaw to Stella Campbell
173(2)
Abraham Lincoln to Fanny McCullough
175(2)
Abraham Lincoln to Lydia Bixby
177(1)
John Donne to His Mother
178(2)
Jonathan Swift to Alexander Pope
180(2)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Her Daughter
182(2)
Samuel Johnson to James Elphinston
184(2)
James Michener to His Friends
186(1)
William Cowper to John Newton
187(2)
Servius Sulpicius Rugus to Marcus Tullius Cicero
189(2)
Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey
191(1)
Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey
192(2)
Sir William Osler to His Wife
194(2)
George Gordon, Lord Byron, to John Cam Hobhouse
196(2)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to His Grandmother
198(2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Charles Lamb
200(2)
Ralph Waldo Emerson to Mary Moody Emerson
202(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson to Thomas Carlyle
203(2)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Mary Appleton Mackintosh
205(2)
Robert Falcon Scott to James Matthew Barrie
207(2)
Herman Hesse to Thomas Mann
209(2)
Herman Hesse to Thomas Mann
211(1)
C. S. Lewis to Owen Barfield
212(1)
Charles Dickens to John Forster
213(2)
Charles Dickens to His Wife
215(2)
Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson
217(2)
Thomas Jefferson to John Adams
219(1)
Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf
220(2)
Margaret Fuller Ossoli to an Unknown Person
222(2)
Margaret Fuller Ossoli to Her Mother
224(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson to Robert Monteith
225(2)
William Wordsworth to Robert Southey
227(2)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Abbe Bullinger
229(2)
Alphonse de Lamartine to Count Raigecourt
231(2)
RAF Pilot to His Mother
233(2)
Catherine of Aragon to King Henry VIII
235(2)
Sir Walter Ralegh to Elizabeth Ralegh
237(4)
III. Elegies 241(40)
Funeral Blues
243(1)
W. H. Auden
Footsteps of Angles
243(2)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Something to Remember Me By
245(1)
Inge Auerbacher
In Loving Memory: E. M. Butler
246(1)
Cecil Day-Lewis
On a Dying Boy
247(1)
William Bell
The Bitter River
248(3)
Langston Hughes
Deceased
251(1)
Langston Hughes
Surprised By Joy
251(1)
William Wordsworth
Dirge Without Music
252(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Blues (for Hedli Anderson)
252(2)
W. H. Auden
I Shall Not Cry Return
254(1)
Ellen M. H. Gates
Sonnet 71: No Longer Mourn for Me When I Am Dead
254(1)
William Shakespeare
Remembrance
255(1)
Emily Jane Bronte
When I Am Dead, My Dearest
256(1)
Christina Rossetti
Remember
257(1)
Christina Rossetti
On My First Son
257(1)
Ben Johnson
Anthem for Doomed Youth
258(1)
Wilfred Owen
They Are All Gone into the World of Light
258(1)
Henry Vaughan
Heraclitus
259(1)
William Johnson Cory
L'Envoi
259(1)
James Michener
The Old Familiar Faces
260(1)
Charles Lamb
Presence of Mind
261(1)
Harry Graham
The Going
261(2)
Thomas Hardy
One Art
263(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
Say Not, They Die, Those Splendid Souls
264(1)
Anonymous
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
264(1)
William Wordsworth
The Twenty-Third Psalm
265(1)
Les Jardins
265(1)
Jacques Delille
Monody on the Death of Francis Johnson
266(1)
R.Douglass, Jr.
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
267(1)
Emily Dickinson
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
267(1)
Anonymous
To My Friend on the Death of His Sister
268(1)
John Greenleaf Whittier
What of the Darkness? To the Happy Dead People
269(1)
Richard Le Gallienne
Early Death
270(1)
Hartley Coleridge
If I Should Go Before the Rest of You
270(1)
Joyce Grenfell
To Mary
271(1)
Charles Wolfe
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
272(1)
Dylan Thomas
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
273(1)
Anonymous
I'm Here for a Short Visit Only
273(1)
Noel Coward
When I Have Fears as Keats Had Fears
274(1)
Noel Coward
Do Not Laugh When the Hearse Goes By
274(1)
Anonymous
Spirits of the Dead
275(1)
Edgar Allan Poe
For Annie
276(1)
Edgar Allan Poe
Grief
276(1)
Norah Leney
Bereft
277(1)
Thomas Hardy
Along the Road
278(1)
Robert Browning Hamilton
There Is No Death
278(1)
Anonymous
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close
279(1)
Emily Dickinson
Psalm of Life
279(2)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
IV. Epitaphs 281(30)
Acknowledgments 311(2)
Permissions 313

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