Samson Agonistes
Contributors: F. T. Prince (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 15, 1970
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780198319108
First sentence: TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other Poems: therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.