...John Dale Ebbs Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 MILTON’S TREATMENT OF POETIC JUSTICE IN SAMSON AGONISTES By JOHN DALEEBBS As has been pointed out rather convincingly in a recent study,’ critics and scholars of Milton’s...

... Agonistes.” By ANTHONYLOW. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1974. ix + 236 pp. 8 12.00. Kepeatedly, Anthony Low remarks upon how the promise of heaven or the divine perspective “lies outside the realm of’ Samson Agonistes (p. 32). Once he wonders “how much...

... of “Paradise Regained” and ‘rSamson Agonistes.” By ARNOLDSTEIN. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1957. Pp. xi 4- 237. $5.00. The recent access of interest in Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes suggests not the exhaustion of Paradise Lost, but the uncomfortable sense among...

... Not ancient only but modern. —Milton, “Of Tragedy,” Samson Agonistes Periodization has long been a problem for Milton’s work. When Milton was born, Shakespeare was still writing; when Milton died, Dryden was the poet laureate, and prose fiction was gaining in popularity. In between, Milton lived...

...: A Study of PreJigurative Tech- n.iques. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971. xii + 264 pp. $8.50. Wittreich, Joseph Anthony, Jr. (editor). Calm of Mind: Tercentenary Essays on “Paradise liegained” and “Samson Agonistes” in honor of John S. Diekhoff. Cleveland...

... to the Greek New Testa- ment, “giving him a Christian (albeit negative) valence” (p. 34), are moments of extraordinary vision in a book whose final chapters constitute a failure both in vision and in methodology. In the early 1950s, T. S. K. Scott-Craig proposed that Samson Agonistes...

... of Paradise Lost that puts drama, dialogue, and conversation at the center. In the dramatic Milton, meaning is found in dialogue and conversation, growing out of the noise of debate and conflict. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 Paradise Lost Samson Agonistes tragedy...

..., Sharon Achinstein focuses on the poet’s career up to and including Paradise Lost; in Historicking Milton, surely a close scholarly second, Laura hoppers addresses Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. Achinstein’s goal is to show how Milton shaped his audience of readers...

... scholarly second, Laura hoppers addresses Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. Achinstein’s goal is to show how Milton shaped his audience of readers, and Knoppers’s is to show how history shaped Milton. The apparent opposition disappears on close reading, because both critics...

... with moral choice and the exercise of right reason. Although she gives some atten- tion to the prose and to Milton’s treatment of conscience in Paradise Lost, her dominant concern is Samson Agonistes. In a reading that complements Mary Ann Radzinowicz’sI she sees Samson as a “hero of conscience...

...Don Norford Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 1 Mary Ann Radzinowicz. Toward “Samson Agonistes”: The Growth of Milton's Mind. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. xxiii + 436 pp. $27.50. SOME VERSIONS OF MILTON...

... are given to Paradise Lost, more than fifty to Samson Agonistes, and only two or three to Paradise Re- gained. His rationale is that Samson is the hardest illustration of Milton’s prophetic art, which is true, but it is also true that Kerrigan is much more interested in Samson than in the other...

... (what Teskey calls transcendence ); engagement with politics (which starts in Comus ); and a dialectical synthesis, transcendental engagement . This last phase begins after the defeat of Milton’s political hopes and includes Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained , and Samson Agonistes ; in it Milton...

... are welcome contributions to our understanding of Milton’s art ; but despite Krouse’s “warning” that “the effect of this presentation is mainly cumulative,” to this reviewer the effect is mainly anticlimactic. What does Samson Agonistes owe to the Christian tra- dition? Only in form, we are told...

...–8) to the Fall’s implications for human marriage and the recovery of human community and love. In chapter 6 he links Milton’s treatment of the Fall to Paradise Regained , Samson Agonistes , and Milton’s prose works, including the divorce tracts. Although this discussion attends less than previous...

... University of California, Berkeley The Blaze of Noon: A Reading of “Samson Agonistes.” By ANTHONYLOW. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1974. ix + 236 pp. 8 12.00. Kepeatedly, Anthony Low remarks upon how the promise of heaven or the divine perspective “lies...

...” (Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics), the famous “calm of mind, all passion spent” (Samson Agonistes While these cita- tions, which*range from scholarly studies to encyclopedias to popular textbooks, might testify to wide acceptance of a terminal tragic calm, there have...

... in A Banquet of Jests (Armstrong 1640 : 130) and Wit Restor’d (Mennes 1658 : 84). Indeed, approaching the end of his career, Milton challenged the idea that revolution could lead to resolution. The Chorus in Samson Agonistes describes the fallen Hebrew champion as an object lesson for those who...

... discussion of Samson Agonistes, at the conclusion of Milton and the Sense of Tradition, Christopher Grose argues that, in his last exchanges with the Chorus, Samson speaks with “duplicity” (p. 185). The Chorus, Grose contends, is an unfit audience, which in its final ruminations droolingly “unmakes...

..., 1957. Pp. xi 4- 237. $5.00. The recent access of interest in Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes suggests not the exhaustion of Paradise Lost, but the uncomfortable sense among Miltonists that its companion poems have never been quite properly regarded. The historical studies...