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SUMMARY:Milton on Tragedy: Law\, Hypallage and Participation - Dr. Andrew 
 Zurcher\, Fellow in English\, Queens' College
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CONTACT:Johanna Hanink
DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to our final meeting of the Lent term.\n\n
 Abstract: John Milton (1608-1674) is not known as one of the great English
  tragedians. In this talk\, though\, I will argue that the epistemological
  and ontological conventions of tragedy exert a negative presence on Milto
 n's thought and poetry from the first\, structuring his encounter with Pla
 tonism and the development of his idiosyncratic theology. In three of his 
 earliest poems\, preoccupations with law\, language\, and participation em
 erge that\, taken together\, help us to understand why\, how\, and to what
  ends both law and tragedy became dominant presences in his late masterpie
 ces.
LOCATION:The Old Kitchens\, Queens' College
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