The Prison and the Pinnacle

action Adam Adam and Eve angels answer BALACHANDRA RAJAN beginning Biblical blindness Book Book of Judges Book of Revelation choral chorus Christ Christian Classical Columbia edition Comus concern contrast course creative critics crucial Dalila deeds defeat despair dialogue divine dramatic eternal event experience faith Fate Father final Fortune genre God's gospels Harapha heaven Hebrews hero heroic hill human humanistic involved isolation kingdom later learning Lewalski Lycidas Manoa means Milton mind mystery Northrop Frye obedience Old Testament Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passion pattern perhaps peripeteia perspective perturbations Philistines pinnacle play poem poetic prophecy prophets providence question Rajan readers reading reason relation Renaissance repentance repudiated response revelation revolutionary Samson Agonistes Satan sense sequence simply smitten with amazement spiritual strength suggest T.S. Eliot tempering temple temptation temptation episode tempted thee things thou tion tragedy tragic understanding Vertue vision visual wilderness wisdom word