Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton by Emily Wilson

Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton

Emily Wilson

304 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction classics dark reflective medium-paced
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In Paradise Lost, Adam asks, "Why do I overlive?" Adam's anguished question is the basis for a critical analysis of living too long as a neglected but central theme in Western tragic literature. Emily Wilson examines this experience in works by Mi...

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