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MILTON, J.: Essential John Milton (The)
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This thoughtful collection of John Milton’s finest poetry marks the quarter centenary of the poet’s birth in 1608. It is read by several of Britain’s foremost classical actors, including Anton Lesser, Samantha Bond and Derek Jacobi. Milton’s uncompromising views set him firmly on the side of Cromwell, putting his life in danger when the Stuart monarchy was restored. But he is now remembered for Paradise Lost and a strong collection of other poetry which influenced successive generations. This collection offers an ideal overview, including excerpts from Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained in its entirety, excerpts from other major works, including Comus and Samson Agonistes, as well as sonnets and famous shorter poems such as On his blindness, plus a biography of Milton.
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The Essential John Milton
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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