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"Johannes Agricola in Meditation" (1836) is an early dramatic monologue by Robert Browning . The poem was first published in the Monthly Repository Dramatic Lyrics Porphyria's Lover
Agricola's "meditations" serve primarily as a critique of antinomianism . The speaker believes in an extreme form of predestination , claiming that, since he is one of the elect, he can commit any sin without forfeiting his afterlife in heaven.
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An essay discussing the poem's historical antecedents.
Plays Poetry collections
Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession Paracelsus "Porphyria's Lover " (1836)
"Johannes Agricola in Meditation " (1836)
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