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Article: The hermeneutics of opposition in 'Paradise Regained' and 'Samson Agonistes'.
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes continue to pose awkward political questions for readers of Milton's other works, both the pre-Restoration political tracts and the post-Restoration Paradise Lost. Paradise Regained seems to advocate political quietism, and it first appeared with Samson Agonistes, as though violent, pyrrhic victory were the alternative to or the consequence of quietism. The two late poems exhibit a despair at the prospects for political action not nearly so prominent in Paradise Lost, though it too was first published well after the Restoration. As disturbing as the despair is the unresolved relation between the two poems and their different ...
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Article: Biblical intertextuality in 'Samson Agonistes.'
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900;
January 1, 1996 ;
700+ words
... ... revisionist reading of Milton's Samson Agonistes. It says "amen" from a biblical ... about his second FALL."(1) Samson Agonistes is a tragedy--tragedy as waste ... in Judges. Paradise Regain'd and Samson Agonistes were published in a single volume ...
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