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Elegiac Mode in Milton and Rilke: Reflections on Death: v. 10 (European University Studies) - Softcover

Latimer, Dan

 
9783261020390: Elegiac Mode in Milton and Rilke: Reflections on Death: v. 10 (European University Studies)

Synopsis

This study examines the elegiac tradition as a succession of poetic responses to the problem posed to man by death and such consequent dilemmas as divine injustice, vitiated nature, immortality, and esthetic memory. Within this tradition, Milton and Rilke represent antithetical positions, the former, «uranian» poet cancelling tragic antinomies through transcendence of nature, the latter, «tellurian» poet vindicating nature and death by reviving an almost matriarchal consciousness excluding both tragic individualism and transcendence.

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