Toward Samson Agonistes : the growth of Milton's mind /
The endurance of a work of art such as Samson Agonistes, this book suggests, derives from its incorporation of the principle of change as the very foundation of its permanence. In a deft and perceptive analysis, Mary Ann Radzinowicz shows how the poem embodies the principle of change, reveals Milton...
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| 語言: | 英语 |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
1978.
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| 叢編: | Princeton legacy library.
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書本目錄:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. "Labouring thy mind": Samson Agonistes and Milton's Dialectic
- Introduction
- 1. "As may stand best with verisimilitude The Imitation of Thought
- 2. "My self, my Sepulchre, a moving Grave. The Divided Mind
- 3. My self? my conscience and internal peace. The Tempered Passions
- II. "Each his own Deliverer": Samson Agonistes and Milton's Conception of History
- Introduction
- 4. "So mutable are all the ways of men". God's Design in Human History, the Record of the Past
- 5. "Wanid by oft experience". God's Promise, the Prophecy of Community
- 6. "The rarer thy example stands". God's Champion and the State's Deliverer
- III. "Lay hold on this occasion": Samson Agonistes and Milton's Politics
- Introduction
- 7. "That by occasion hence I might begin Israel's Deliverance". Political Intention in Milton's Shorter Poems
- 8. "Occasions drew me". Political Intention in Milton's Prose
- 9. "To what can I be useful, wherein serve My Nation". The Political Significance of Samson Agonistes
- IV. "Thou hast fulfiU'd the work": Samson Agonistes and Milton's Ethics
- Introduction
- 10. "Apt words have power to swage". Biblical Poetry and Medicinal Truth
- 11. "Be calm, and healing words ... admit". Biblical Poetry and Moral Example
- 12. "Samson hath quit himself like Samson". The Ethics of Good Works and the Tragedy of Educative Suffering
- V. "Th' unsearchable dispose" and "New acquist of true experience": Samson Agonistes and Milton's Theology and Poetics. Samson Agonistes and Milton's Theology and Poetics
- Introduction
- 13. "At least vain reasonings down": Rational Theology and Progressive Revelation
- 14. "I was ... a person rais'd". Orthodoxy and the Individual Conscience
- 15. "Perswaded that This was from God". The Role of the Poet
- Appendixes
- A. A Table of Suggested Sonnet Datings and the Subgroups Into Which They Fall
- B. Psalm Citations in Samson Agonistes
- C. A Schematic Outline of de Doctrina Christiana, Book II
- D. A Topical Synopsis of De Doctrina Christiana, Book I
- E. The Date of Composition of Samson Agonistes
- Bibliography
- Index