Hardy got into trouble for this as well. People really don't like it. Can I question how brave you were to write this tragedy, because this tragedy was actually a myth which already existed, and therefore there's a distance between yourself and rewriting the myth. Now that distance doesn't actually exist between the child who's reading it and the story. I don't think so.
Story works in a very direct way.
I wouldn't have been moved to write the story if I hadn't read it over and over again when I was a kid. I don't think that holds any water whatsoever really.