Browning's Johannes Agricola in Meditation. (analysis of a Robert Browning poem)

The Explicator | March 22, 1996| | Copyright

The word "bargain" (59) in Robert Browning's poem requires explication.(1) Johannes Agricola, who is confined to a madhouse cell, is guilty only of protestantism. However, that is enough to make him a danger to society, because he believes that he has been foreordained - thanks to a primordial deal between God the Father and Christ - to be the impregnable proponent of what Andre Gide was later to call "the gratuitous act." No matter what Agricola does, he has conferred a special kind of knowledge upon himself; namely, that he is among Christ's elect. He identifies himself with ...

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