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Article: Mourning Eve, Mourning Milton in Paradise Lost.(Book Review)
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- Early Modern Literary Studies
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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Mourning Eve, Mourning Milton in Paradise Lost
Elizabeth M. A. Hodgson
University of British Columbia
ehodgson@interchange.ubc.ca
Hodgson, Elizabeth M.A. "Mourning Eve, Mourning Milton in Paradise Lost". Early Modern Literary Studies 11.1 (May, 2005) 6.1-32
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Hamlet's mourning black seems to be a form of armour which Milton's poetic personae prefer to wear. In works from "Lycidas" to Samson Agonistes, the potency of grief, disillusionment, and loss is fundamental to Milton's literary self-fashionings. In his prose texts and his poetry, the Miltonic speaker is often isolated, deprived, sorrowful, in mourning over ...