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Poetics of Mourning (Paperback)
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Poetics of Mourning (Paperback)
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Milton criticism, and especially that of Samson Agonistes, is
commonly founded upon two certainties: the certainty of Samson's
regeneration, and the certainty of Milton's idealizing
Christianity. These platitudes have led too many critics to
accommodate Samson (and by implication Milton) into a
neo-conservative, predictable, brutally formalistic mold that,
instead of challenging, enshrines inherited systems of belief.
Euripides, Milton's favorite tragedian, wrote tragedy through his
experience of the Peloponnesian War and the resultant fall of the
Periclean democratic experiment, a disaster Milton recognized in
his own experience of the English civil war. Through war and
tragedy Euripides searched the individual and historical boundaries
between normality and pathology, locating the source of tragedy in
the tense interdependence of opposites: the forces of creation and
destruction in ourselves, our societies, our world. This study
examines Milton's intellectual and imaginative development in light
of Euripidean tragedy, a development that would culminate, achieve
its fullest expression, in Milton's last poem Samson Agonistes.
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