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  More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)

 
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
Samson Agonistes

(1671)
Poetic drama by *Milton, similar to a Greek tragedy in the intensity with which it fills a narrow canvas. The action is limited to the final days of Samson, captive of the *Philistines, who describes himself as 'eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves' (many have seen a parallel with the blind author himself, out of step in a society that had reverted to royalist rule with the *Restoration). During the drama Samson moves from self-pity to a new sense of strength and mission, which enables him to bring the hall of the Philistines crashing down.
 








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