...Victoria Kahn Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Victoria Kahn Political Theology and Reason of State in Samson Agonistes In his treatise on Political Theology of 1922, Carl Schmitt defined the sovereign as he who de­ cides on the exception. 1 Schmitt, a conservative scholar...

...Allan Gilbert Heroic Knowledge, An Interpretation of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes . By Stein Arnold . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1957 . Pp. xiv , 237 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 Book Reviews 399 relation between...

...Allan H. Gilbert Milton’s Samson and the Christian Tradition . By Krouse F. Michael . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1949 . Pp. xii , 159 . $3.75. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 254 The South Atlantic Quarterly revelation, moral law which...

...Edith Buchanan Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Milton s True Knight Edith Buchanan The warp of Samson Agonistes is undeniably the story of Samson in Judges, interpreted by all the commentary and pictorial represen­ tation familiar to Milton, and the woof is Milton s own deeply...

...Nancy D. Libby Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Milton s Harapha Nancy D. Libby Harapha of Gath is the only major character in Milton s Samson Agonistes not present in the biblical version of the story. To him the poet has devoted an episode of over two hundred lines, too long...

.... Whereas Grotius had done so from the perspective of the victor, explaining why his power should be curtailed and urging him toward moderation in his treatment of prisoners, Milton used the story of Samson as a way of considering this situation from the position ofthe vanquished and thereby revealed...

... of chivalry? Carlyle achieves a via media. In his attitude towards the past he is never pedant, and never dilettante. The twelfth cen­ tury is not dry rubbish, nor is it a glowing canvas of color. In Carlyle s hands it becomes fact made vivid by imagination. The election of Abbot Samson is a beautiful...

... unhappily, failed to catch Harapha s comic quality. Some years ago Mrs. Alma Sams Kennedy in a Duke University master s thesis argued for the upsetting view that Samson Agonistes is not the last production from Milton s pen, but rather is the earliest of his three major works, dating from the 1640 s. Within...

... of the most ancient types of verbal humor sur­ viving from primitive times. The smart Greek Riddle of the Sphinx is matched by the bucolic Hebrew Riddle of Samson. Samson, it will be recalled from Judges XIV, had a Philistine gal at the head of a hollow up Timnath way. One day, on his way to see her, he met...

... and the whole mind, as Coleridge insists and as Baker notes, is operative in the processes of the imagination. DUKE UNIVERSITY CHARLES RICHARD SANDERS Heroic Knowledge, An Interpretation of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. By Arnold Stein. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1957. Pp. xiv, 237...

... investigated; I interviewed one of his aunts, a woman intellectually vigorous in her eighties. 2 The question was the reading of Samson, 1096; Gilbert reasoned for with other arms, but suggested I should make use of the textual resources at Illinois, which indicated that wish is the authentic reading. 3...

..., And Laughter holding both his sides, and in his prose political pamphlets he sometimes displays a satiric wit which might have done credit to Swift, but this is not the great poet Milton, this is not the name to resound for ages. The real Milton, the Milton that wrote Comus, Paradise Lost, and Samson...

...Wilson O. Clough Book Reviews 283 book-length study refreshes for us the potency of this dimension. Oc­ casionally he falls into flaws, forgivable in work of a pioneering kind. Is there warrant, for example, in likening Hamlet in Act V to Samson and to the resignation of Gethsemane (p. 133)? I...

... when dressed in robes of spiritual authority, it is plain that she is still the same harlot she always was, but less alluring. Glenn Negley. Milton s Samson and the Christian Tradition. By F. Michael Krouse. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949. Pp. xii, 159. $3-75- In his preface the writer...

... ‘‘material claims and a way that seems more likely to win international assent than some of the other tactics currently in play. In order to get a quick fix on the actual state of human rights discourse, consider Colin Samson’s statement in his contribution to the Culture and Rights volume...

.... Oc­ casionally he falls into flaws, forgivable in work of a pioneering kind. Is there warrant, for example, in likening Hamlet in Act V to Samson and to the resignation of Gethsemane (p. 133)? I find no textual al­ lusion to support this; and Hamlet s revengeful cry, Then, venom, to thy work...

... autobiography as anywhere, Mr. Hanford, like many pre­ decessors, finds in Samson Agonistes. He is aware of a suggestion that the tragedy is to be assigned to the middle rather than the end of Milton s career. But of this he says: There is no eternal evidence, and we shall proceed on the traditional assumption...

... is more, the bal­ Some Theatrical Programs in Paris 361 let, exquisitely danced, to be sure, but, none the less, pain­ fully out of place, is as vigorously applauded as is the opera itself. We advance one step in the scale, and find ourselves attending a performance of Saint-Saens Samson et Dalila...

...’’ to administer the township Paulus Samson stood at the window and observed the crowd milling around the notice-board. Some stared Tseng 2002.1.21 14:32 122 Loren Kruger...

..., the nation rousing herself . . . and shaking her invincible locks is compared to a strong man after sleep and to the eagle. The strong man has commonly been associated with Samson and even with Milton s final composition, Samson Agonistes. At the end of this drama, the Chorus compares Samson...