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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Season 3 Podcast 168 Milton's Paradise Lost Bk VI, Pt XI, The War in Heaven, Pt I, The Introduction
Description: The War in Heaven Pt I IntroductionSome critics are astonished that Milton, inspired by only a few verses from Genesis, was able to write Paradise Lost. Strictly speaking, that is too narrow a view of the scope of Paradise Lost. I want to continue to keep at the forefront Milton’s stated theme:Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruitOf that forbidden tree whose mortal tasteBrought death into the World, and all our woe,With loss of Eden, till one greater ManRestore us, and...