Samson Agonistes and Other Poems: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition
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By John Milton, Joseph Black (Editor), Leonard Conolly (Editor), Kate Flint (Editor), Isobel Grundy (Editor), Don LePan (Editor), Roy Liuzza (Editor), Jerome J. McGann (Editor), Anne Lake Prescott (Editor), Barry V. Qualls (Editor), Claire Waters (Editor)
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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 fueled instead by our fallen desires and weaknesses? At what point do accommodation and compromise with an enemy become a failure of will?...






















