"Johannes Agricola in Meditation" (1836) is an early dramatic monologue by Robert Browning . The poem was first published in the Monthly Repository ; later, it appeared in Dramatic Lyrics (1842) paired with Porphyria's Lover under the title "Madhouse Cells."
Agricola's "meditations" serve primarily as a critique of antinomianism . The speaker believes in an extreme form of predestination , claiming that, since he's 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 and poems
Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession (1833)
Paracelsus (1835)
"Porphyria's Lover" (1836)
"Johannes Agricola in Meditation " (1836)
Sordello (1840)
Dramatic Lyrics (1842, "My Last Duchess ", "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister ", "Count Gismond ")
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845, "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad ", "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix ", "Meeting at Night ", "The Laboratory ", "The Lost Leader" )
Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day (1850)
Men and Women (1855, "Love Among the Ruins" , "Evelyn Hope ", "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" , "Andrea del Sarto ", "Fra Lippo Lippi ", "A Toccata of Galuppi's ")
Dramatis Personæ (1864, "Rabbi ben Ezra ", "Caliban upon Setebos ")
The Ring and the Book (1868-9)
(1871)
Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society (1871)
(1872)
Red Cotton Night-Cap Country (1873)
(1875)
(1875)
Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper (1876)
(1877)
and (1878)
(1879, 1880)
Jocoseria (1883)
Ferishtah's Fancies (1884)
(1887)
(1889)
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