1st Edition
Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes John Milton: Twentieth Century Perspectives
Edited By Martin Evans
Copyright 2003
352 Pages
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Routledge
In this unique five-volume set, students will encounter the twentieth century's most influential and representative Milton scholarship. Treating his life, as well as the full scope of his poetry and prose works, the thematically organized papers have been selected and arranged by a leading Milton scholar with an eye toward the key issues covered in virtually any course on the poet and his... Read more
Volume Introduction, Paradise Regained, The Genre: Milton's Dialogue with the Epic: Paradise Regained and the Tradition, The Hero: The Christ of Paradise Regained and the Renaissance Heroic Tradition, The Better Fortitude, The Nature of The Christ of Paradise Regained, The Temptations: The Temptation in Paradise Regained, Theme and Structure in Paradise Regained, The (Homo)Sexual Temptation in Milton's Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes: The Date of Samson Agonistes, Hellenic Elements: Samson Agonistes and the Hellenic Drama, The Greek Spirit in Milton's Samson Agonistes, Hebraic Elements : Samson Agonistes, Our Living Dread: The God of Samson Agonistes, Theological Readings: Milton's Samson as the Tragic Hero Purified by Trial, Samson Agonistes as Tragedy, The Interpretation of Samson Agonistes, Political Readings : Samson Agonistes and Milton the Politician in Defeat, Samson Agonistes Again, On Stage: Producing Samson Agonistes.
Biography
J. Martin Evans, Stanford University.
