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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Season 3 Podcast 193 Milton's Paradise Lost, Bk VIII, Pt XVI, "The Story of Creation Pt II"
Description: Paradise Lost Bk VII, Pt XVI, “The Story of Creation” Pt IIIn the following segments of Book VII, we first have a conversation between Adam and Raphael about the purpose of creation. Milton, the Christian and Bible scholar, uses the Bible as his primary resource for the fundamental elements of the creation story. For those familiar with Genesis the story will be very familiar. Milton, the poet, however, in addition to telling the creation story, attempts to make Adam and Eve more personal. He gets inside their head and tries to show what it i...