SAMSON'S "DEATH SO NOBLE"

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概要

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• As the late Professor A. S. P. Woodhouse properly warned in his pregnant essay on Samson Agonistes, critics, "misled by the prefatory emphasis on Greek models", have too much assumed that Milton meant "not only to follow them in structure and convention but to reproduce their spirit and effect". W. R. Parker (to take a famous example) conjectured that "the whole piece has an impressiveness which makes it truly Hellenic." Recently Douglas Bush supported Parker's argument, observing that "no specifically Christian doctrines are admitted, no clear statement of the working of grace, not even faith in Samson's immortality...." There are, of course, numbers of critics who lay stress on the definitely Hebraic or Christian coloring of the drama-Sir Richard C. Jebb (Parker's worthy opponent), F. Michael Krouse, John M. Steadman among many others. Aligning himself with the latter position, the writer of this essay will show that Samson Agonistes is not a Christian drama generally, but is rather a Christian Puritan drama.

• 財団法人日本英文学会の論文
• 1972-03-30

著者

• Arai Akira

  Tokyo University Of Education

関連論文

• Earl Miner, ed., Seventeenth-Century Imagery: Essays on Uses of Figurative Language from Donne to Farquhar, Berkely, Los Angles and London, University of California Press, 1971., xxi+202pp.
• SAMSON'S "DEATH SO NOBLE"

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