That Invincible Samson: The Theme of Samson Agonistes in World Literature - Couverture souple

Kirkconnell, Watson

 
9781487592356: That Invincible Samson: The Theme of Samson Agonistes in World Literature

Synopsis

This work examines the more than one hundred analogues of Samson Agonistes, about half of them written earlier than Milton's drama. The author has gone back in every instance to primary sources, and examined all treatments of Milton's theme, in all languages, for their intrinsic interest and merit.

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À propos de l?auteur

Watson Kirkconnell (1895-1977) was an army officer, a professor emeritus of Latin and English, ninth president of Acadia University (1948-1964), a Milton scholar, author of many volumes of prose and poetry, historian, and genealogist. He was also the joint founder of the Federal Citizenship Branch (1940), the Humanities Research Council of Canada (1943) and the Baptist Federation of Canada (1944). In 1936 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780802014238: That Invincible Samson: Theme of "Samson Agonistes" in World Literature with Translations of the Major Analogues

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0802014232 ISBN 13 :  9780802014238
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 1965
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