Imperfect Sense: The Predicament of Milton's IronyWhy do we hate Milton's God? Victoria Silver reengages with a perennial problem in Milton studies, one whose genealogy dates back at least to the Romantics, but which finds its most cogent modern expression in William Empson's revulsion at Milton's God and Stanley Fish's defense. |
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... acknowledgment for my own, since the result of my inquiry—if not the process—was the same: “The book,” he writes, “carries many obligations, as it largely consists of reporting the ideas of previous critics and then using them.” 1 ...
... acknowledgment of our common nature and, as Werner Jaeger observes, how we are circumscribed and confounded by our mortality.20 He then comments that a delimited human being is a religious recognition even as human suffering.
... acknowledgment and understanding of conflict itself. No less than philosophy in Plato's sense, tragedy is psychagogia, a leading of the soul by which actors and audience alike are justified, insofar as we can be brought by a certain ...
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