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Books on: samson agonistes

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Altering Eyes: New Perspectives on Samson Agonistes

Book by Mark R. Kelley, Joseph Wittreich; University of Delaware Press, 2002

Subjects:

Bible--In Literature, Judges In Literature, Milton, John--1608-1674--Samson Agonistes, Samson--(Biblical Judge)--In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

In the last decade or so, the traditional reading of Milton's tragedy has been challenged so successfully that an alternative Samson becomes the point of reference and standard of measure for all recent criticism. With the emphasis now falling on the poem's peculiar indeterminacy, its dialogic ...
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In the last decade or so, the traditional reading of Milton's tragedy has been challenged so successfully that an alternative Samson becomes the point of reference and standard of measure for all recent criticism. With the emphasis now falling on the poem's peculiar indeterminacy, its dialogic character, and its protagonist's perplexing ambiguity while underscoring the importance of the biblical story and texts, the secrets of Samson's story are released from what appears to be the most ambiguous among Milton's poems.
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Milton's Debt to Greek Tragedy in Samson Agonistes

Book by William Riley Parker; The Johns Hopkins Press, 1937

Subjects:

Literature, Comparative--English and Greek, Literature, Comparative--Greek and English, Milton, John--1608-1674--Samson Agonistes

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...MILTONS DEBT TO GREEK TRAGEDY IN SAMSON AGONISTES LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD...MILTONS DEBT TO GREEK TRAGEDY IN SAMSON AGONISTES BY WILLIAM RILEY PARKER...suggest. In his preface to Samson Agonistes , Of that sort of Dramatic...
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Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes

Book by John Milton; Collier Books, 1962

Subjects:

Fiction

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Samson Agonistes Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Samson Agonistes JOHN MILTON WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION...Regained in 1671, the dramatic poem Samson Agonistes is more admired today than the brief...
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Threshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity

Book by Susannah B. Mintz; University of Delaware Press, 2003

Subjects:

Intersubjectivity In Literature, Milton, John--1608-1674--Knowledge--Psychology, Milton, John--1608-1674--Paradise Lost, Milton, John--1608-1674--Samson Agonistes, Poetics--History--17th Century, Poetry--Psychological Aspects, Psychoanalysis And Literature--England, Psychology In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Milton, John, 1608-1674. Samson agonistes. 4. Milton, John, 1608-1674...Disability and Recognition in Samson Agonistes 175 Epilogue 208 Notes...Disability and Recognition in Samson Agonistes, in Milton Studies 40, ed...
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Milton's Burden of Interpretation

Book by Dayton Haskin; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994

Subjects:

Bible--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc, Bible--In Literature, Books And Reading--England--History--17th Century, Milton, John--1608-1674--Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...in Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes 147...to a final "statement" in Samson Agonistes . I have not sought to claim...treating Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes as poems that belong to a...

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Journal Articles on: samson agonistes

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Samson Agonistes and the Politics of Restoration Sport

Journal article by Gregory M. Colon Semenza; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 42, 2002

Subjects:

Milton, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Politics in literature--17th century, Samson Agonistes (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sports and state--17th century, United Kingdom--History, 1660-1688 (Restoration)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Samson Agonistes and the politics of Restoration sport...sport in polemics and literature. In Samson Agonistes, Miltons use of the term "sport" to...David Massons The Life of John Milton, Samson Agonistes has been widely regarded as an allegorical...
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The Failed Jeremiad in Samson Agonistes

Journal article by Eugene Johnson; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 46, 2006

Subjects:

Criticism, Personal--Analysis, Milton, John (English poet)--Criticism and interpretation, Milton, John (English poet)--Works, Personal criticism--Analysis, Samson Agonistes (Essay)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The Failed Jeremiad in Samson Agonistes. by Eugene Johnson...Lost Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes frequently critique, or reassess...writing. This paper focuses on Samson Agonistes, which rejects the optimism...
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The Hermeneutics of Opposition in 'Paradise Regained' and 'Samson Agonistes'

Journal article by Anne K. Krook; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 36, 1996

Subjects:

Authors, English--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Milton, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Paradise Regained (Poem)--Political aspects, Religious poetry--Political aspects, Samson Agonistes (Poem)--Political aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...opposition in Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. by Anne K. Krook Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes continue to pose awkward political...and it first appeared with Samson Agonistes, as though violent, pyrrhic...
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Biblical Intertextuality in 'Samson Agonistes.'

Journal article by Jane Melbourne; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 36, 1996

Subjects:

Bible and literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Bible. O.T. Judges (Sacred text)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Milton, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Paradise Regained (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Samson Agonistes (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Biblical intertextuality in Samson Agonistes. by Jane Melbourne...revisionist reading of Miltons Samson Agonistes. It says "amen" from a biblical...about his second FALL."(1) Samson Agonistes is a tragedy--tragedy as waste...
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"True Religion" and Tragedy: Milton's Insights in 'Samson Agonistes.'

Journal article by George H. Mcloone; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 28, 1995

Subjects:

Bible and literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Christianity and literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Milton, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poetry--Themes, motives, Samson (Biblical character)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Samson Agonistes (poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...tragedy: Miltons insights in Samson Agonistes. by George H. McLoone...tragedy, the "dramatic poem" Samson Agonistes (1671), has a more celebrated...radical Christianity of his time, Samson Agonistes has no Messianic prophecy or...

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Magazine Articles on: samson agonistes

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1956: Eden Agonistes

Magazine article by Malcolm Muggeridge; New Statesman, Vol. 128, December 6, 1999

Subjects:

Eden, Anthony--Evaluation, Prime ministers--Evaluation, United Kingdom--Politics and government

Collections: Entire Library

...and his classs fortunes have hitherto rested. No more unlikely Samson to pull down the pillars of a social edifice could possibly...down he has. The only difference is that, whereas the original Samson remained in the resultant ruins, this one has decamped to Jamaica...
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The Riverside Milton

Magazine article by Paul Dean; New Criterion, Vol. 17, September 1998

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, The Riverside Milton (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...praised the innovative metrics of Samson Agonistes, but Eliots own rhythmic mastery...hard to remember, while reading Samson Agonistes, that Shakespearean drama ever...a finality of closure about Samson Agonistes which marks it off from Shakespearean...
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A Clearer Vision

Magazine article by F. Gonzalez-Crussi; Commonweal, August 13, 1999

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Sight Unseen (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Blindness may be counted among the nightmare terrors of the hale and hearty. The well-known lines of Milton in Samson Agonistes, "Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, / Dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age!" have a poignancy that touches...
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Was It Something I Said? Five Books by Extremely Engaging Misogynists

Magazine article by Cristina Nehring; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 295, April 2005

Subjects:

Misogyny--Bibliography

Collections: Entire Library

...portrait of a Christian gentleman." Samson Agonistes, by John Milton (1671). Possibly...against the fair sex. The biblical Samsons fury is not unjustified: his goyish...rages. Its hard not to think that Samson is still smarting from D61ila when...
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Barbara Pym's Affectionate Irony

Magazine article by Betty Smartt Carter; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, November 2006

Subjects:

Authors, English--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, English--Works, English writers--Criticism and interpretation, English writers--Works, Irony--Portrayals, Pym, Barbara--Criticism and interpretation, Pym, Barbara--Works

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...have tried to picture it, especially the scene in the diaries where Robert Liddell caught the two of them "reading Samson Agonistes in bed with nothing on.") Fortunately--and I think this answers the charge of shallowness--Pym was already learning...

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Newspaper Articles on: samson agonistes

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Soap Opera Studies? A-Levels in Reality TV? Great Books Are the ONLY Way Today's Children Can Learn about Love, Heroism and True Humanity

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 2, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...some years after I left school, the Associated Examining Board A-level set texts included Hamlet and The Tempest, Samson Agonistes (Milton), The Nuns Priests Tale (Chaucer), A Passage To India (Forster), Hard Times (Dickens) and the poetry of Crabbe...
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Muse Worthy; Night & Day

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 16, 1996

Subjects:

Levi, Peter, Milton, John

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...parliamentary regime in the aftermath of Charles Is execution, a blind old age spent composing Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. When little is known about his subjects progress, Levi throws in some incidental research. The chapter on Miltons...
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POST PUZZLER: 50 for Fun; Phil Brown's Trivia Quiz

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), December 28, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Barca? 17 Illustrated by Manet, inspiration for music by Debussy - which Stephane Mallarme poem? 18 Comus, Lycidas, Samson Agonistes - which poet? 19 Which ancient city and port lies on the isthmus connecting the Peloponnese with the rest of mainland...
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Celebrity Bad Boys

Newspaper article by Suzanne Fields; The Washington Times, December 3, 1998

Subjects:

Allen, Woody

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...is made up of a characters fatal flaw, not a pattern of obnoxious behavior. In "Samson Agonistes," the epic poem by John Milton about Samson and Delilah, Samson says, "She sought to make me traitor to myself." Thats tragedy; you cant be a traitor...
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Goodbye to Knowledge, Hello Political Propaganda; EDUCATION MATTERS NEVER MIND THE BULLOCK Plain Speaking from Ex-Teacher Brenda Bullock

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 16, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Boon romantic story. Similarly, you can read Miltons Samson Agonistes, leave aside questions on Miltons use of the traditions of the Greek tragedy and ask about Samson as "an urban terrorist". 80 per cent...90 per cent...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: samson agonistes

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Samson

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...was probably drawn from popular oral folk tales and may be a myth connected with the cult of sun worship. Miltons Samson Agonistes is a celebrated English poem on the blinded Samson. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition...
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Closet Drama

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Shakespeare, and Goethes Faust (Part I, 1808; Part II, 1832) draws in part on the Elizabethan tradition. Miltons Samson Agonistes (1671) and Shelleys Prometheus Unbound (1819) are based on Greek tragedies. Notable among other closet dramas...
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Milton, John

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...with biblical and classical allusions, allegorical representations, metaphors, puns, and rhetorical flourishes. Samson Agonistes, a poetic drama modeled on classical Greek tragedy but with biblical subject matter, appeared together with Paradise...

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