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Overview
Theroux has included some of the world's most well-known tributes, such as Pericles' Funeral Oration, Jules Michelet's appreciation of Jeanne d'Arc, Victor Hugo's ringing words on the one hundredth anniversary of Voltaire's death, Cardinal Suenens's eulogy for Pope John XXIII. But most of the eulogized assembled here are eighteenth- to twentieth-century Americans, and the stories of their lives illuminate our history with a particularly intimate light. In Robert Kennedy's extemporaneous remarks upon hearing of the death of Martin Luther King, or Eugene McCarthy's tribute to his friend and colleague, Hubert Humphrey, the values, wisdom, and spirit of both the eulogized and the eulogizer are revealed.
The Book of Eulogies is a sourcebook for anyone who must find words of solace, understanding, and inspiration on the occasion of a beloved's death. It is also a treasury of astonishing eloquence, passion, and humanity — a record of extraordinary lives, seen through the eyes of those who knew and loved them.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781501112423 |
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| Publisher: | Scribner |
| Publication date: | 01/10/2015 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 400 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Phyllis Theroux is an essayist, columnist, teacher, and author. Her writing has appeared in many publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and International Herald Tribune. Theroux graduated from Manhattanville College and currently lives with her husband in Ashland, Virginia.
Table of Contents
Introduction 13
Part I Public Treasures 19
Chapter 1 The Creators 21
Johann Sebastian Bach William F. Buckley Jr. 23
Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Grillparzer 25
Charlotte Bronte William Makepeace Thackeray 27
Emily Dickinson Susan Gilbert Dickinson 29
Walt Whitman Robert; Green Ingersoll 30
Rupert Brooke Sir Ian Hamilton 32
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Jean Renoir 33
William. Butler Yeats Wystan Hugh Auden 36
Flarmery O'Connor Thomas Merton 39
Wystan Hugh Auden. Hannah Arendt 42
John Hersey Bemardine Connelly 45
William Stafford Kirn R. Stafford 46
Chapter 2 A Nation's Heroes and Martyrs 5
Jeanne d'Arc Jules Michelet 53
Ulysses S. Grant Rev. Henry Ward Beecher 56
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa Patrick Henry Pearse 59
Lawrence of Arabia Sir Winston Churchill 60
Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Jawaharlal Nehru 63
Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee Eric Sevareid 65
Yitzhak Rabin Noa Ben-Artzi Philosof 66
Chapter 3 Public Servants 69
George Washington Thomas Jefferson 71
Thomas Jefferson Nicholas Biddie 74
Abraham Lincoln Carl Sandburg 76
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Sean Quinlan 80
Adlai Ewing Stevenson Richard N. Goodwin 83
Sen. Hubert: Horatio Humphrey Eugene J. McCarthy 85
Chapter 4 Reformers and Renegades 89
Henry David Thoreau Ralph Waldo Emerson 93
John Peter Altgeld Clarence S. Darrow 95
Eugene Victor Debs Heywood Campbell Broun 98
Jane Addams Christian Century Editorial 101
Eleanor Roosevelt Adlai Ewing Stevenson 102
John XXIII Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens 104
Martin Buber New York Times Editorial 108
Robert F. Kennedy David Murray 109
Bishop James Albert Pike William Stringfellow 111
Dorothy Day Jim Forest 115
Cesar Estrada Chavez Peter Matthiessen 118
Jessica Mitford Molly Ivins 121
Chapter 5 Warriors in the African-American Story 125
Daniel Webster Rev. Theodore Parker 127
John Brown John H. Finley 131
Abraham Lincoln Frederick Douglass 134
Charles Sumner Joseph H. Rainey 141
Burghardt Du Bois W. E. B. Du Bow 143
The Martyred Children of Birmingham Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 146
James Chaney Fannie Lee Chaney 149
Malcolm X. Qssie Davis 150
Rev. James J. Reeb Robert A. Reed 152
Rev. Or, Martin Luther King Robert F. Kennedy 156
Vernon E. Jordan Sr. Vernon E. Jordan Jr. 158
James Baldwin William Styron 160
Arthur Robert Ashe by New York Times Editorial 163
Marian Anderson by New York Times Editorial 164
Chapter 6 A Nation's Dead 167
Pericles' Funeral Oration 169
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 171
Memorial Tablet Kemal Pasha Atatürk 172
A Valedictory to the Unknown Soldiers of World War II James O'Neill Jr. 173
Days of Remembrance Elie Wiesel 175
Chapter 7 The Eulogy as Social Commentary 179
Queen Anne of England by Sarah, Duchess of Marlboro 181
Voltaire Victor Hugo 183
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher Sinclair Lewis 188
William Jennings Bryan H. L. Mencken 190
Nadezhda Mandelstam Joseph Brodsky 193
Marilyn Monroe Diana Trilling 198
Chapter 8 Death Be Not Solemn 211
Riley Grannan William Herman Knickerbocker 213
Ambrose Bierce Florence King 215
Minnie Marx Alexander Woollcott 217
Sister Beatrice of Jesus, OCD, by Sister Robin Stratton, OCD 219
Part II Private Lives 223
Chapter 9 Parents 225
Laurie Lee on His Mother, Annie Lee 227
Richard Selzer on His Mother, Gertrude Selzer 228
Beisy MeCully Cooper on Her Mother, Eloise McCully Simmons 232
Charles Trueheart on His Father, William C. Trueheart 234
Michael Saltz on His Father, Jerome Saltz 236
Julie Houston on Her Mother, Rutheda Hunt d'Alton 218
Marie Harris on Her Mother, Mane Murray Harris 241
A Eulogy to My Unknown Father Ross Ordaz 542
Catharine A. MacKinnon on Her Father, George E. MacKinnon 244
David. R. Cook on His Mother, Nelle Reed Cook 247
Chapter 10 Children 249
Susy Clemens Mark Twain 251
Mary White William Allen White 253
Peter Benjamin Weisman Mary-Lou Weisman 257
John Conrad Jr. John Conrad Sr. 260
Chapter 11 Brothers and Others 265
Clark Ingersoll Robert Green Ingersoll 267
Alice Lee Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt 268
Amy Catherine Wells H. Q. Wells 269
Kitty O Donnell Quindlen Anna Quindlen 271
Roberta Marget Schultz Madeline Marget 274
Francs Xavier Gallagher Father Joseph Gallagher 277
Chapter 12 Such Good Friends 279
James Ferrier Robert Louis Stevenson 281
Mark Twain Helen Keller 284
Maj. Robert Gregory William Butler Yeats 286
Anne Sullivan Macy Alexander Woollcott 287
Edward R Ricketts John Steinbeck 292
James Agee John Huston 295
H. L Mencken William Manchester 296
Nance MacDonald Mary McGrory 298
Lewis B. Puller Jr. Sen. Bob Kerrey 301
Elizabeth Lyngdoh Albert Pingree 304
Chapter 13 Animal Loves 307
Old Drum George Graham Vest 309
Calvin Charles Dudley Warner 311
Daisy E. B. White 315
Coco by Vineyard Gazette Editorial 317
Part III Words of Consolation 319
Chapter 14 What Death Means 321
Buddha 323
Plata 324
Sir Francis Bacon 325
Henry David Thoreau 326
Kahlil Gibran 328
Henry Scott Holland 329
Rev. Henry Van Dyke 330
Thornton Wilder 331
Helen Keller 332
Florida Scott-Maxwell 332
Chapter 15 'Grief Defined 335
On Sorrow Henry James 335
On Overcoming Suffering Katharine Mansfield 337
The Living Are Defined by Whom They Have Lost Anna Quindlen 338
Grief Julius Lester 340
Mothers Who Have Lost a Child Erma Bombeck 342
Alex's Death Rev, William Sloane Coffin 344
Chapter 16 Letters Of Condolence 349
Dr. Samuel Johnson 349
Benjamin Franklin 350
William Blake 350
James Russell Lowell 351
Emily Dickinson 352
Abraham Lincoln 353
Robert Louis Stevenson 354
Ambrose Bierce 355
William Dean Howells 355
Sir Walter Raleigh 356
George Bernard Shaw 356
T. E. Shaw (Lawrence of Arabia) 357
George Santayana 358
F. Scott Fitzgerald 359
Albert Einstein 360
Ernest Hemingway 360
Thornton Wilder 361
Rabbi Schlager 362
Henry Miller 363
William Maxwell 363
The Cornell Family 564
Robert Williams 365
Katherine Sprinkel 366
Chapter 17 Poetry 367
After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes Emily Dickinson 367
Musee des Beaux Arts Wystan Hugh Auden 368
Dirge Without Music Edna St. Vincent Millay 369
From Aniony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare 370
On My First Sonne Ben Jonson 370
Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H. Ben Jonson 371
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways William Wordsworth 371
Break, Break, Break Alfred Lord Tennyson 372
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Dylan Thomas 373
My Grandmother in the Stars Naomi Shihab Nye 374
Catullus' Ode to His Brother 375
Sweet Brother, If I Do Not Sleep, Thomas Merton 375
To the Memory of Arthur Greeves C. S. Lewis 377
We'll Go No More A-Roving, George Gordon Lord Byron 377
The Soldier Rupert Brooke 378
Of All This Numerous Progeny, John Dry den. 379
I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great Sir Stephen Spender 379
Death, Be Not Proud John Donne 380
Be Ahead of All Parting Rainer Maria RUke 381
You Will Never Be Alone William Stafford 382
Flesh of My Flesh Barbara Boggs Sigmund 383
From "Song of Myself" Walt Whitman 385
Don't Grieve Rumi 386
From "A Dialogue of Self and Soul" William Butler Yeats 387
God's Grandeur Gerard Manley Hopkins 388
From "Vacillation" William Butler Vests 389
Credits 391
Index 397