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The Essential John Milton

Selections from Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and other works

Read by Anton Lesser, Samantha Bond and Derek Jacobi

a tribute that should stand as a model for how to do a great writer honour. The first three CDs are devoted to Paradise Lost and the fourth and fifth to Paradise Regained. Both are read by Anton... — The Times More…
  • Release Date: 28th Jul 2008
  • Catalogue No: NA888512
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

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Milton: The Essential John Milton

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  • Recording Venue: RNIB Talking Book Studios, London Motivation Sound Studios, London

PARADISE LOST Book I Line 1: Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit

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Line 128: O Prince, O chief of many throned Powers

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Line 242: Is this the region, this the soil, the clime

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Line 522: All these and more came flocking; but with looks

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Line 622: O myriads of immortal Spirits, O Powers

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Line 722: …Th' ascending pile

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Book II Line 1: High on a throne of royal state, which far

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Line 119: I should be much for open war, O Peers

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Line 229: Either to disenthrone the King of Heav'n

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Line 310: Thrones and imperial Powers, offspring of Heav'n

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Line 390: Well have ye judged, well ended long debate

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Line 430: O progeny of Heav'n, empyreal Thrones

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Line 506: The Stygian Council thus dissolved; and forth

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Line 704: So spake the grisly terror, and in shape

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Line 850: The key of this infernal pit by due

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Line 968: T' whom Satan turning boldly thus. Ye Powers

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Book III Paraphrase: God sitting on his throne sees Satan…

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Book IV Line 1: O for that warning voice, which he who saw

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Line 114: Thus while he spake, each passion dimmed his face

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Line 172: Now to th' ascent of that steep savage hill

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Line 246: …thus was this place

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Line 358: O Hell! What do mine eyes with grief behold

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Line 440: To whom thus Eve replied. O thou for whom

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Line 492: So spake our general mother, and with eyes

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Books V–VIII Paraphrase: Meanwhile, Uriel, descending

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Book IX Line 1: No more of talk where God or angel guest

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Line 99: O earth, how like to Heav'n, if not preferr'd

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Line 204: And Eve first to her husband thus began.

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Line 270: To whom the virgin majesty of Eve

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Line 376: So spake the patriarch of mankind, but Eve

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Line 494: So spake the Enemy of mankind, enclosed

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Line 567: To whom the guileful Tempter thus replied.

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Line 613: So talked the spirited sly snake; and Eve

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Line 679: O sacred, wise and wisdom-giving plant

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Line 745: Great are thy virtues, doubtless, best of fruits

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Line 856: Hast thou not wondered Adam, at my stay?

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Line 896: O fairest of Creation, last and best

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Line 960: So Adam, and thus Eve to him replied.

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Line 1034: So said he, and forbore not glance or toy

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Line 1134: Would thou hadst hearkened to my words, and stayed

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Book X Paraphrase: Man's disobedience known

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Line 68: Father Eternal, thine is to decree

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Line 229: Meanwhile ere thus was sinned and judged on earth

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Line 354: O parent, these are thy magnific deeds

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Line 460: Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers

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Books XI and XII Paraphrase: Meanwhile Sin and Death rejoice

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Book XII Line 553: How soon hath thy prediction, seer blest

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Paradise Regained – Book I

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Oh ancient powers of Air and this wide World

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So to the coast of Jordan he directs

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Meanwhile the Son of God, who yet some days

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This having heard, straight I again revolved

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Full forty days he passed – whether on hill

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Whom thus answered the Arch-Fiend, now undisguised:

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To whom our Saviour sternly thus replied:

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So spake our Saviour; but the subtle Fiend,

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Book II

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Thus they out of their plaints new hope resume

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The while her Son, tracing the desert wild,

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To whom quick answer Satan thus returned:

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He ceased, and heard their grant in loud acclaim;

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He viewed it round;

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'What doubts the Son of God to sit and eat?'

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To whom thus Jesus patiently replied:

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Book III

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To whom our Saviour calmly thus replied

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To whom the Tempter, murmuring, thus replied

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To whom our Saviour answer thus returned

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With that (such power was given him then), he took

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He looked, and saw what numbers numberless

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To whom our Saviour answered thus, unmoved

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Book IV

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And now the Tempter thus his silence broke

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To whom the Son of God, unmoved, replied

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Whom thus our Saviour answered with disdain

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Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount

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To whom our Saviour sagely thus replied

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Or, if I would delight my private hours

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So saying, he took (for still he knew his power Not yet expired)

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Him walking on a sunny hill he found

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To whom the Fiend, now swoln with rage, replied

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But Satan, smitten with amazement, fell

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'True Image of the Father, whether throned…'

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At a Vacation Exercise

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L'Allegro

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Il Penseroso

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Or let my lamp, at midnight hour…

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At a Solemn Musick

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To Mr. H Lawes, on his Aires

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On Time

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On Shakespeare

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On the morning of Christ's Nativity

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Yea Truth, and Justice then…

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Sonnet: To the Lord General Cromwell

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Sonnet: On the detraction which followed…

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Sonnet: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

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Lycidas

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cont. It was that fatal and perfidious bark…

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Sonnet: To the Nightingale

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Sonnet: On my 23rd Birthday

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from Paradise Lost – opening of Book I

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from Paradise Lost – Book 1 – The fall of Mulciber

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from Paradise Lost – opening of Book II

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from Paradise Lost – from Book XII

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from Paradise Regained

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Sonnet: Upon a Deceased Wife

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Sonnet: On his Blindness

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Sonnet: to Cyriack Skinner

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from Samson Agonistes

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The destruction of the Temple from Samson Agonistes

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The Final Chorus from Samson Agonistes

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from Comus, a Masque

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Introduction to Areopagitica

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from Areopagitica

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Next, what more national corruption…

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What advantage is it to be a man…

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And now the time in special…

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Introduction to The Doctrine and Discipline

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from The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce

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How vain therefore is it….

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I suppose it will be allow'd us…

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Introduction to The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

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from The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

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Since the king or magistrate…

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John Milton: A Life

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John Milton was a republican and a Protestant.

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In the end, his time at Cambridge…

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The poem, a pastoral elegy…

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Speculation surrounds almost every facet…

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In 1644 he wrote what is still probably…

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Milton stayed in his role…

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This was a dangerous thing to be doing…

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The poem is a dark and dramatic one.

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He was still working, though.

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