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	Elements of the Epic Hero
		In his 2002 essay “Text and Context for Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes,” author Steven Dobranski examines the Omissa, an additional ten lines which were printed as an addition to the published copy of Samson Agonistes.
		Readers may never know what made Samson love Dalila, but through an understanding of epic heroes and their stories, they may better understand who Samson is and what he does in Samson Agonistes.
		SAMSON AND THE OMISSA, By: Dobranski, Stephen B., Studies in English Literature (Rice), 00393657, Winter 96, Vol.
	www.tcnj.edu /~graham/Wurtzel.html (1104 words)

	Samson (oratorio) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samson is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel.
		It was based on a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton, who based it on Milton's Samson Agonistes, which in turn was based on the figure Samson in Chapter 16 of the Book of Judges.
		Samson is usually performed as an oratorio in concert form, but on occasions has also been staged as an opera.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samson_(oratorio) (149 words)

	§18. "Samson Agonistes". V. Milton. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and American ...
		No Ellwood boasts its suggestion; although there are two Samson subjects for dramas in the Cambridge list neither of these has any detail appended to it, and one refers to an early episode (the fox tails and fire brands) of the hero’s life.
		The parallel of Samson and Milton himself is extraordinary, even at first blush, and the poet, with his strong autobiographical tendency, has brought it out still further.
		But, quite independently of this, Samson Agonistes, from the purely literary point of view, is a poem of the highest interest and of the greatest beauty.
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	Samson Agonistes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samson Agonistes (Greek: "Samson the agonist") is a work of blank verse tragedy by John Milton.
		Samson Agonistes is the conversation of a man forced to labor in pain while in captivity as the result of his own foolishness.
		This physical pain is coupled with the mental anguish (that is the Greek definition of agony) brought on by knowledge that his current low estate is a direct result of a broken vow to God (his secret revelation of the source of his God-given strength) and subsequent betrayal by Delilah, the woman he loved.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samson_Agonistes (573 words)

	The Father's House
		Samson Agonistes in its Historical Moment Yet we know that in fact the sense of election in such a passage cannot be strictly Calvinist because Milton himself was a believer in the Arminian revision of Calvinist doctrine, which affirmed the freedom of the will over predestination.
		Samson arranges the disposition of his resources - the psychic, symbolic, or material capital represented by 'strength' - in order to satisfy the demands of both fathers; and this he is able to do not by a labor of production, but by a single, fantasmatic 'great work' of destruction.
		Samson acts out the psychic economy of the Calvinist, but in a deviant form: his vocation is a desublimation of aggression, a crucial difference marking the discrepancy between the divine and earthly father's demands as the recto and verso of destruction and production.
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		Samson’s slavery aggravates him dearly, because not only is he forced to labor for the idolatrous Philistines, God gifted his great strength to him to free his nation, and, instead, his strength is used to profit the Philistines.
		Samson’s pursuit of Dalila and her charms enslaved his mind, so that he was eventually enslaved bodily.
		Samson feels that he deserves the punishment of slavery to the Philistines, since his lack of reason was an indication that he was being servile in a far worse manner than he is in the hands of the Philistines:
	web.pdx.edu /~holbrook/samson.htm (1366 words)

	Free Essays on Samson Agonistes
		Samson yet again lays all the blame on himself because he was the one who broke the pledge with God and betrayed it to a woman, and feels that his imprisonment and blindness is what he deserved.
		Samson also says that, "This day will be remarkable in my life, by some great act, or of my days the last." Samson's progression from "I cannot come" to "I will not come" to "I with this messenger will go along" has been a centerpiece of regenerationist readings of the play (Echoes).
		Indeed, some of the speeches of Samson are almost Old Testament in their harshness; and there is a vindictive, unreconciled tone in the agony expressed by Samson over his blindness, his defeat, and the treachery of his wife, which has caused readers to see consistent autobiographical significance in the poem (Colliers).
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		Samson, at the beginning of the tragedy, is indeed resigned to his fate.
		Upon first seeing Samson, but before making their presence known to him, the chorus notes his condition as "to the lowest pitch of abject fortune thou art fallen." (SA 169) At the mention of this fallen condition, the reader is immediately reminded of similar tragic events in Milton's body of work.
		Samson Agonistes, his final published work, owes a great deal to that tradition, but the skill of the poet is such that his reinvention of the form established in antiquity marks him as one of the few worthy heirs to that ancient legacy.
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	Agonistes -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The struggle that "Samson Agonistes" centers upon is the effort of Samson to renew his faith in God's support.
		Agonistes is a borrowing from Greek, where it means "a contestant in the public games".
		Some related words include "agonist" (the usual English form; agonistes preserves the Greek ending), agony (originally referring to mental struggle), and agonize.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ag/agonistes.htm (124 words)

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		Samson Agonistes is a"closet drama," that is, a play that is meant to be read and not performed.
		In Samson Agonistes Milton dramatizes the plight of Samson after he has been betrayed by Delila and captured by the Phillistines.
		Samson Agonistes has been both condemned and praised as a defense of suicide.
	www.engl.niu.edu /jschaeffer/spring00/409/miltass10.html (195 words)

	Milton Review 12: Milton Studies XXXIII
		The rest is up to me.’ Samson, speaking to the Chorus, who are not his enemies, and whom he has no reason to deceive, states the only occasion for departing from this principle: where outward force constrains.
		Samson did not ‘decimate’ the ‘choice nobility and flower’ of the Philistines (172); ‘the vulgar only scaped who stood without’ (line 1659) suggests that more than one in ten of those who stood within perished.
		She argues that English iambic pentameter is ‘the best candidate for the verse design of Samson Agonistes on the grounds of adequacy and accuracy alike,’ but goes far beyond a technical analysis substantiating this argument.
	www.richmond.edu /~creamer/mr12.html (1808 words)

	[EMLS 5.2 (September, 1999]: 3.1-27 "In this dark world and wide": Samson Agonistes and the Meaning of Christian Heroism
		Samson's agony numbs us; but it is, after all, the trial of a man, not the story of a God who has emerged from a human chrysalis.
		Samson's inability to rise to the Son's contempt for 'ostentation vain of fleshly arm' ([Paradise Regained] III.387)...is underlined by Milton in the Harapha episode.
		It is understatement to say that the Biblical Samson is thus to a considerable degree the intellectual inferior of his literary counterpart, a fact which detracts commensurably from his ability to fulfill the Aristotelian requirement that he be an exemplary figure when he becomes a character in a classical tragedy.
	www.shu.ac.uk /emls/05-2/bartsams.htm (6757 words)

	'Exiled from Light':Divine Law, Morality and Violence in Milton's 'Samson Agonistes' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Milton's Samson never experiences any horrified recognition that the Philistines are his 'dear ones.' Wood reads this as bitter irony, but many will find this part of the argument implausible in its wishfulness.
		Wood's chief evidence is his dubious (and oft-repeated) claim that Samson's death is 'an act of tragic futility.' It is true that the Israelites remained enslaved after Samson's death.
		Samson insists that freedom is possible for those who have the courage to take it.
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	Essaydirect.com: Religion and Politics in John Milton's Samson Agonistes - Term Paper (Advanced Seminar). Publish your ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Samson Agonistes is a piece of work, which was composed by Milton not as a pure didactic exercise but also as extended personal meditation.
		Nobody knows exactly when Samson Agonistes was written but it is assumed that it was in a time where his own resurrection and salvation had begun and that he had taken Samson as a role model less numinous than Christ to express his inner feelings.
		Samson Agonistes is therefor more interesting as a religious, political and autobiographical play than as the classical, Greek tragedy or as the Christian comedy, as so many people have judged it.
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	ipedia.com: Samson Agonistes Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Samson Agonistes is a work of blank verse tragedy by John Milton.
		Samson Agonistes (Greek: "Samson the ") is a work of blank verse tragedy by John Milton.
		Like these works, Samson Agonistes follows many conventions of the Greek Classics, specifically attention to, a chorus, a sympathetic hero, and small cast of players.
	www.ipedia.com /samson_agonistes.html (584 words)

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		Samson Agonistes (i) The Samson Tradition For the historical account, see Judges 13-16, and the important New Testament commentary in Hebrews 11.32-34.
		F Michael Krouse Milton’s Samson and the Christian Tradition (Princeton, 1949) C A Patrides Milton and the Christian Tradition (Oxford, 1966) S Stollman ‘Milton’s Samson and the Jewish Tradition’, Milton Studies, 3 (1971) (ii) The Poem Samuel Johnson’s criticism in The Rambler No 139, July 16, 1751, and Lives of the Poets, 1779-1781, is seminal.
		Useful comments on Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained may be found in the more general works on Milton by Bush, Carey, Daiches, Martz, Nicholson, Rajan, Tillyard, Woodhouse.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /sesll/EngLit/ugrad/hons/materials/later_Milton.doc (381 words)

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		The Chorus and those who appear to Samson intend to comfort him (like Job's comforters), but they often have the opposite effect (irony!), agitating him, reminding him of his former greatness and his great error of trusting Dalila, causing him to lament his current servitude and lost purpose.
		Dalila "tempts" Samson to abandon his "mission" by coming back to her -- describe the stages of this temptation.
		Dalila finally attempts a temptation of the flesh by trying to touch Samson, hoping the old juices of this uxorious hero are still active.
	campus.queens.edu /depts/english/samson.htm (659 words)

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		ARGUMENT The Argument Samson made Captive, Blind, and now in the Prison at Gaza, there to labour as in a common work-house, on a Festival day, in the general cessation from labour, comes forth into the open Air, to a place nigh, somewhat retir'd there to sit a while and bemoan his condition.
		Yet hear me Samson; not that I endeavour To lessen or extenuate my offence, But that on th' other side if it be weigh'd By it self, with aggravations not surcharg'd, Or else with just allowance counterpois'd I may, if possible, thy pardon find The easier towards me, or thy hatred less.
		Immediately Was Samson as a public servant brought, In thir state Livery clad; before him Pipes And Timbrels, on each side went armed guards, Both horse and foot before him and behind Archers, and Slingers, Cataphracts and Spears.
	www.infomotions.com /etexts/literature/english/1600-1699/milton-samson-534.txt (7781 words)

	Maulbronn Monastery Edition - G.F.Haendel: Oratory Samson (in english) - 2 CDs
		G.F.Haendel, Oratory SAMSON (2CDs,DDD), A Concertrecording in english with S.Pratschke, M.Chance, M.LeBrocq, R.Nolte, D.Thomas, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Baroqueorchestra, Conductor Juergen Budday, K&K Verlagsanstalt Edition Monastery Maulbronn George Frideric Handel SAMSON An oratorio in three movements A concert recording from the convent church in Maulbronn (1999) in english and performed in a historical setting.
		The work starts one year after the capture and blinding of Samson, when the priests of the pagan god Dagon are celebrating their greatest triumph.
		In his last struggle Samson, accompained by his father Manoah and his friend Micah, has to stand the temptations of the seductress Dalila and the giant Harapha, which are both followers of god Dagon and his priests.
	www.kuk-verlagsanstalt.com /English/Maulbronn/SetSamson.html (605 words)

	~~ Ship of Fools ~~ The Ark ~~ Samson ~~
		Samson has had a great career in films, the earliest being the primitve 1903 silent movie, Samson and Delilah –; see him lift a canvas and balsa wood door!
		His most surreal appearance was in the Mexican movie, Samson versus the Vampire Women, which comes complete with squinting vampire women and a wrestler wearing mask, tights and a cape.
		Samson also starred in John Milton's second-best poem, Samson Agonistes, and has a walk-on part in The Canterbury Tales, his story being retold as part of "The Monk's Tale".
	www.ship-of-fools.com /theark/samson/playlist.php (220 words)

	AllRefer.com - Samson (Biblical Proper Names, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		His long hair was a symbol of his vows to God, and because of this covenant Samson was strong.
		The Samson cycle was probably drawn from popular oral folk tales and may be a myth connected with the cult of sun worship.
		Milton's Samson Agonistes is a celebrated English poem on the blinded Samson.
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	NotesonSamsonAgonistes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Most notable are Milton's making Dalilah Samson's wife (she is his mistress in the Biblical account), Manoa's efforts to free his son, and Samson's rather complex character.
		S.A. Some have argued that Samson is allegorized in such a way that he has become not only a saint but a prototype of Christ in the sense of Moses, Abraham, and David.
		If this is true, the title of the play becomes very significant; to a Greek the title would be only "Samson Struggling" while to Milton is may have suggested "Samson as the true, warfaring Christian." One critic even claims that "Samson Agonistes is really Christ Agonistes"; his struggle is like Christ's agony in Gethsemane.
	www.montreat.edu /dking/milton/notesonsamsonag.htm (547 words)

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		Samson Agonistes is the climax and completion of Milton's poetic vision.
		In 1969, John Carey heralded the birth of new critical perspectives when he contended that Milton's dramatic poem "is not a drama of inner regeneration," a view that flies in the face of traditional interpretation, which tends to perceive Samson as a hero of regeneration.
		This book contends that there are several Samsons in the dramatic poem and multiple contexts and various traditions that bring to light Milton's unique rendition of a kaleidoscopic protagonist.
	www.dupress.duq.edu /authors/wittreich.html (285 words)

	Claire Bloom and John Neville Star in Samson Agonistes (4.21.03)
		New York, NY, April, 7, 2003—American poet Robert Lowell described Milton's Samson Agonistes as "the last great English play in verse." On Monday, April 21, at 8:00 p.m., the 92nd Street Y Poets' Theater presents a concert reading of this timeless drama, which is distinguished by its gorgeous poetry and unsettling protagonist.
		At the beginning of Samson Agonistes, the great warrior Samson is blind and captive at the prison at Gaza.
		Chained to pillars of a temple, Samson pulls down its roof onto the lords and captains of Philistine, killing himself and his enemies in a final of act of revenge, and, some might say, redemption.
	www.92y.org /content/milton_samson_agonistes_April_2003.asp (1246 words)

	Deborah Samson
		But, in 1782 Samson dressed as a man and enlisted in the 4th Massachusetts Regiment as “Robert Shurtliff.” Although General Cornwallis had already surrendered at Yorktown, there was still fighting in New York.
		Samson's friend, Paul Revere, persuaded the Massachusetts government to give her back pay and interest, a total of 37 pounds.
		This was inadequate, and Samson went on the lecture circuit, discussing her wartime experiences.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0878894.html (473 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - John Milton
		After the Restoration of Charles II to the throne in 1660, Milton was arrested as a defender of the Commonwealth, fined, and soon released.
		He lived the rest of his life in seclusion in the country, completing the epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) and writing Paradise Regained (1671) and Samson Agonistes (1671).
		Paradise Lost, which chronicles the fall of Adam and his expulsion from Eden, is widely regarded as his masterpiece and one of the greatest epic poems in world literature.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/707 (438 words)

	Samson Agonistes - Free Will in John Milton's Samson Agonistes
		John Milton’s Samson Agonistes is based on the story of Samson, an Israelite hero in the Old Testament who falls from grace.
		When Samson was born, God gave him extraordinary physical strength.
		Therefore Samson has control over his strength and can be held accountable for his deeds.
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