Synopsis
The Great Remembrance And Other Poems by Richard Watson Gilder is a late 19th-century American poetry collection that memorializes war, honors national memory, and meditates on art and human achievement. Originally published in 1893 (Second Edition), the volume gathers commemorative poems tied to the Civil War, the Army of the Potomac, and public memory, alongside tributes to artists and musicians. The sequence opens with The Great Remembrance, a ceremonial meditation on sacrifice, comradeship, and the enduring promise of freedom, followed by pieces such as The White City, The Vanishing City, and The Tower of Flame, which celebrate the Columbian Exposition and the role of culture in national life. Interleaved are poems honoring poets, performers, and thinkers—Lowell, Tennyson, Paderewski, Rubinstein, Booth, and Duse—plus reflective meditations in A Book of Songs and A Week’s Calendar. The collection blends elegiac remembrance with patriotic ardor and a confident faith in art and liberty as universal goods. The tone is ceremonial, lyrical, and grand, rooted in memory and the hope of a better world.
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