Toward Samson Agonistes : : The Growth of Milton's Mind / / Mary Ann Radzinowicz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Radzinowicz, Mary Ann,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1644
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• 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