[Milton-L] Why is Samson so stinting in his forgiveness?

[Michael Bryson]

Alan Rudrum objects to doing Mr. Carroll's thinking
for him, then directs Mr. Carroll to four sources
(three of them by Alan Rudrum), and tells Mr.
Carroll that he can safely ignore two prominent
Miltonists as "revisionist."

Comedy gold...

Michael Bryson

---- Original message ----

  Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:40:43 -0700
  From: Alan Rudrum <alanrudrum at gmail.com>
  Subject: [Milton-L] Why is Samson so stinting in
  his forgiveness?
  To: John Milton Discussion List
  <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>

  Charles Carroll wrote:

  While we're on the topic of feeble apologies, what
  does anyone on this
  list think about the fascinating feeble apology
  that Delila makes to
  Samson in SA? Why does she bother and why is
  Samson so stinting in his
  forgiveness? Any thoughts about this topic would
  be much welcomed!

                     
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  It is not clear to me why we should be doing your
  thinking for you; but you might find it useful to
  do some reading.  Here are some suggestions:

  Arnold Stein, Heroic Knowledge, Univ of Minnesota
  Press, 1957.  The classic treatment.

  Alan Rudrum, A Critical Commentary on Milton's
  Samson Agonistes, Macmillan, London, 1969.

  Alan Rudrum, "Discerning the Spirit in Samson
  Agonistes," in Charles W. Durham, eds, "All in
  All," Unity Diversity and the Miltonic
  Perspective, SUP, 1999.

                              
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  There is revisionist stuff by Joseph Wittreich and
  Derek Wood, but both may safely be ignored, for
  reasons which you will find in the following:

  Alan Rudrum,:Milton Scholarship and the Agon over
  Samson Agonistes, in the Huntington Library
  Quarterly, Vol. 65 (2002), Nos. 3 and 4, (2002)
  (which actually came out rather later)

  Alan Rudrum

  www.sfu.ca/~rudrum

  www.alanrudrum.com
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