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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Season 3 Podcast 223 Milton's Paradise Lost Bk IX Pt XXII "Temptation of Eve B"
Description: “Temptation of Eve Pt B” In the preface to Book IX, Milton presents the following abstractEve requires him to bring her to that tree, and finds it to be the tree of knowledge, forbidden: Eve still does not know that she is talking to Lucifer. She sees only the fantastic looking serpent with its stranger powers of speech and beautiful disguise.So talk’d the spirited sly Snake; and EveYet more amaz’d unwarie thus reply’d.Eve continues to refer to the fact that She and...