Samson Agonistes
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Samson Agonistes is a tragic closet drama by John Milton. It appeared with the publication of Milton's Paradise Regained in 1671, as the title page of that volume states: "Paradise Regained / A Poem /
Title page of Paradise Regained (1671), the first publication of Samson Agonistes.
Samson Agonistes, pen sketch by George Hayter, 1821
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BLW Samson slaying a Philistine
Eyeless in Gaza (novel)
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Eyeless in Gaza is a novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1936. It is an account of the life of an English socialite named Anthony Beavis between the 1890s and 1935.
Samson Agonistes
…as being "Eyeless in Gaza", a phrase that has become the most quoted line of Agonistes. Novelist Aldous Huxley used it as the title for his 1936 novel Eyeless in Gaza. Samson's blindness, however, is not exactly analogous to Milton's. Rather, Samson's blindness plays various symbolic roles. One is the correlation…
Dust-jacket from the first edition