{"date":"December 19","id":"12-19","intro":["The mighty Samson was blinded while a captive of the Philistines. He sought revenge—a revenge devastating and costly. Milton, himself a giant of intellect, blind and imprisoned, wrote of this sightless giant of other days."],"minutes":23,"readings":[{"author":"John Milton","end":459,"start":444,"volume":4,"work":"Samson Agonistes"}],"slug":"december-19","status":"proofread","title":"Samson Finds a Champion","url":"/harvard-classics/december-19/","words":4595}