![]() ![]() The dismal Situation waste and wilde, Īs one great Furnace flam'd, yet from those flames Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate: Torments him round he throws his baleful eyes Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfeīoth of lost happiness and lasting pain [ 55 Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie ![]() Rais'd impious War in Heav'n and Battel proud The Mother of Mankind, what time his Pride Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what causeįavour'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off įor one restraint, Lords of the World besides? Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime.Īnd mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark That with no middle flight intends to soarĪbove th' Aonian Mount, while it pursues In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earthĭelight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flow'd That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, [ 5 Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tastīrought Death into the World, and all our woe, Out of the Deep: The infernal Peers there sit in Councel. Pandemonium the Palace of Satan rises, suddenly built To find out the truth of this Prophesie, and what to determin thereon he refers to a full Councel. That Angels were long before this visible Creation, was the opinion of many ancient Fathers. ![]() To be created, according to an ancient Prophesie or report in Heaven for Regaining Heaven, but tells them lastly of a new World and new kind of Creature To these Satan directs his Speech, comforts them with hope yet of Rise, thir Numbers, array of Battel, thir chief Leaders nam'd, according to the Idols known afterwards in Canaan and the Countries adjoyning. SatanĪwakens all his Legions, who lay till then in the same manner confounded They Order and Dignity lay by him they confer of thir miserable fall. Here, not in the Center (for Heaven and Earth mayīut in a place of utter darkness, fitliest call'd Chaos: Here Satan with his Angels lying on the burning Lake,Īfter a certain space recovers, as from confusion, calls up him who next in Presenting Satan with his Angels now fallen into Hell, describ'd Over, the Poem hasts into the midst of things, God, and drawing to his side many Legions of Angels, was by the command of Godĭriven out of Heaven with all his Crew into the great Deep. ![]() Or rather Satan in the Serpent who revolting from Wherein he was plac't: Then touches the prime cause of his fall, the Serpent, This problem almost turned me off the audiobook before I'd really given it a chance.First in brief, the whole Subject, Mans disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise Anyone who wants to focus on just Book V of Paradise Lost, for instance, has to do a lot of work to figure out where he or she should start listening. That said, it would be of great help to students if the publisher would label the recorded segments with the specific book (and maybe even line numbers!) from which the reading was drawn. Listening to this recording helped me, I believe, experience this book as its 17th century author intended, rather than as my jaded eyes had seen it before. The actors in this project could not have been better, and perform their roles with great dignity, and without the slightest irony. Having listened to this recording, I am amazed at the difference truly great readers make in the meaning of a story. Also, to a modern mind (or at least to my mind) some of the descriptions of Adam and Eve and their time in the garden seemed almost campy. I was not a great fan of Paradise Lost before, largely because Eve annoyed me so (she looks to Adam for leadership, while he looks to God), and some of Milton's inventions (mainly those surrounding the character of Sin) seemed gratuitous. I found myself revisiting this story recently, having last read it almost 30 years ago. Paradise Regained, published in 1671, tells of the temptation of Christ by Satan as he wanders in the wilderness for 40 days and nights. John Milton's epic, biblically-inspired poems are wonderfully dramatised for BBC Radio starring Denis Quilley as Milton, Ian McDiarmid as Satan and Robert Glenister as Christ, enhanced by specially composed music.įirst published in 1667, Paradise Lost describes Satan's plot to ruin God's new and most favoured creation, Mankind, and recounts the temptation of Adam and Eve and their banishment from the Garden of Eden. Out of chaos shall come order and out of darkness shall come light. The highly-acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Milton's epic poem telling the story of the fall of man and also its sequel, Paradise Regained. ![]()
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