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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Season 3 Podcast 163 Milton's Paradise Lost Bk V, Pt X, The First Temptation
Description: Milton’s Paradise Lost Bk V, Pt X, The First Temptation Sir Arthur-Quiller Couch said, a writer to reach the high points resorts to poetry, to reach the low points resorts to prose. With Milton there are no low points. One cannot be distracted while reading Paradise Lost or one will get lost in Paradise Lost, and having a good dictionary nearby is useful. Book V of Paradise Lost opens with Adam and Eve waking up to a new day. What is different about this day, however, is that Eve was troubled during the nig...