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Samson Agonistes and Other Poems - A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition (Paperback)
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Samson Agonistes and Other Poems - A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition (Paperback)
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Loot Price R474
Discovery Miles 4 740
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In Samson Agonistes, Milton's last great work, he addresses
questions that pressed insistently on the imagination of all who
were unhappy with the changes wrought by the Restoration. How do we
respond to the experience of defeat and to fears of having been
abandoned by the divine? How do we know when our actions accord
with divine will or when they are fuelled instead by our fallen
desires and weaknesses? At what point do accommodation and
compromise with an enemy become a failure of will? What constitutes
true heroism? To what extent is violence justified in the cause of
freedom? In this dramatic poem, Milton abandons the regularly
maintained blank verse of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained and
employs varying line lengths, mixes blank verse with lyric rhyme
and takes such liberties with scansion that the poem often has the
feel of modern "free verse." To many scholars, the poetry of Samson
Agonistes seems the culminating literary expression of a poet who
had already demonstrated his mastery of traditional forms and felt
free to abandon convention to create the poetic effects he desired.
In addition to Samson Agonistes, this volume includes a selection
of Milton's best-known short poems (also taken from The Broadview
Anthology of British Literature). The biblical material concerning
Samson is also included in an appendix.
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