In Memoriam: Mary Ann Radzinowicz (1925–2023)

Toward "Samson Agonistes:" the Growth of Milton's Mind has much to say, of course, about Samson Agonistes, interpreting that terrific drama as the fulfillment of Milton's career and as his most vitally relevant political work-a view that appears to be having its day at the present time.I would draw attention, however, to the book's understated subtitle that indicates the ambition and scale of this study: nothing less than the entirety of Milton's oeuvre, seen through the development in time of his towering intellect as a specifically political consciousness.While at Cambridge, Mary Ann married Sir Leon Radzinowicz and had two children with him, Ann and William.She bore the title "Lady" but didn't use it, although graduate students referred to her affectionately as "Lady Rad."While at Cornell, in addition to many articles on the seventeenth century, she published her pioneering study of Milton's use of the psalms to lend radical emotional