The Elegiac Mode in Milton and Rilke. Reflections on Death. (= European University Papers. Series VIII: Comparative Literature. Vol. 10).

Latimer, Dan.

ISBN 10: 3261020393 / ISBN 13: 9783261020390

Published by Frankfurt am Main, Lang, 1977

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56 pp. -TEXT IN ENGLISH- Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 100.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Elegiac Mode in Milton and Rilke. Reflections on Death. (= European University Papers. Series VIII: Comparative Literature. Vol. 10).
• Publisher: Frankfurt am Main, Lang
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3261020393
• ISBN 13: 9783261020390
• Binding: 8vo. Softcover, fine.
• Weight: 100 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Neuere Literaturwissenschaft

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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.