Part 1 Interpretations: Samson Agonistes and Milton in old age / James Holly Hanford -- Milton's debt to Greek tragedy in Samson Agonistes: the problem of spirit / William Riley Parker -- The epithet Agonistes / F. Michael Krouse -- The idea as pattern: despair and Samson Agonistes / Don Cameron Allen -- The return of Samson / Arnold Stein -- Structural and doctrinal pattern in Milton's later poems: Samson Agonistes / Arthur E. Barker -- From shadowy types to Truth / William G. Madsen -- Part 2 Viewpoints: T. J. B. Spencer / E. M. W. Tillyard / Frank Kermode / Arnold Stein / John M. Steadman / Northrop Frye / W. H. Auden / A. S. P. Woodhouse.