John Milton (2) Read By Anton Lesser – Paradise Lost - The Complete Text Unabridged
Tracklist
1-1 | Book 1 - The Argument - This First Book Proposes | |
1-2 | Book 1 - Of Man's First Disobedience, And The Fruit | |
1-3 | There The Companions Of His Fall | |
1-4 | Whereto With Speedy Words Th' Arch-Fiend Replied | |
1-5 | Forthwith Upright He Rears From Off The Pool | |
1.6 | He Scarce Had Ceased When The Superior Fiend | |
1.7 | The Chief Were Those Who, From The Pit Of Hell | |
1-8 | Next Came One Who Mourned In Earnest | |
1-9 | All These And More Came Flocking | |
1-10 | Thus Far These Beyond Compare Of Mortal Prowess | |
1-11 | There Stood A Hill Not Far, Whose Grisly Top | |
1-12 | Meanwhile The Winged Heralds, By Command | |
1-13 | Book 2 - The Argument - The Consultation Begun | |
1-14 | Book 2 - High On A Throne Of Royal State | |
1-15 | He Ended Frowning, And His Look Denounced | |
1-16 | War, Therefore, Open Or Concealed, Alike | |
1-17 | Thus Belial, With Words Clothed In Reason's Garb | |
1-18 | He Scarce Had Finished, When Such Murmur Filled | |
2-1 | Thus Beelzebub Pleaded His Devilish Counsel | |
2-2 | This Said, He Sat; And Expectation Held | |
2-3 | The Stygian Council Thus Dissolved; And Forth | |
2-4 | Beyond This Flood A Frozen Continent | |
2-5 | Meanwhile The Adversary Of God And Man | |
2-6 | So Spake The Grisly Terror, And In Shape | |
2-7 | She Finished; And The Subtle Fiend His Lore Soone Learned | |
2-8 | Thus Saying, From Her Side The Fatal Key | |
2-9 | T' Whom Satan, Turning Boldly, Thus: - Ye Powers | |
2-10 | Book 3 - The Argument - God Sitting On His Throne | |
2-11 | Book 3 - Hail, Holy Light, Offspring Of Heaven Firstborn | |
2-12 | Only Begotten Son, Seest Thou What Rage | |
2-13 | O Father, Gracious Was That Word Which Clos'd | |
2-14 | Father, Thy Word Is Past, Man Shall Find Grace | |
2-15 | Thou, Therefore, Whom Thou Only Canst Redeem | |
2-16 | No Sooner Had The Almighty Ceased, But All | |
2-17 | Mean While Upon The Firm Opacous Globe | |
3-1 | All This Dark Globe The Fiend Found As He Passed | |
3-2 | There Lands The Fiend, A Spot Like Which Perhaps | |
3-3 | Uriel, For Thou Of Those Seven Spirits That Stand | |
3-4 | Book 4 - The Argument - Satan Now In Prospect Of Eden | |
3-5 | Book 4 - O, For That Warning Voice, Which He, Who Saw | |
3-6 | But Say I Could Repent, And Could Obtain | |
3-7 | Now To The Ascent Of That Steep Savage Hill | |
3-8 | Not That Fair Field Of Enna, Where Proserpine Gathering | |
3-9 | O Hell! What Do Mine Eyes With Grief Behold! | |
3-10 | To Whom Thus Eve Replied. O Thou For Whom | |
3-11 | So Spake Our General Mother, And With Eyes | |
3-12 | So Saying, His Proud Step He Scornful Turned | |
3-13 | Now Came Still Evening On, And Twilight Gray | |
3-14 | Thus Talking, Hand In Hand Alone They Passed | |
3-15 | These, Lulled By Nightingales, Embracing Slept | |
3-16 | The Fiend Replied Not, Overcome With Rage | |
3-17 | To Whom The Warrior Angel Soon Replied | |
4-1 | Book 5 - The Argument Morning Approacht | |
4-2 | Book 5 - Now Morn, Her Rosy Steps In The Eastern Clime | |
4-3 | Thus Eve Her Night Related, And Thus Adam Answered Sad | |
4-4 | These Are Thy Glorious Works, Parent Of Good | |
4-5 | On To Their Morning's Rural Work They Haste | |
4-6 | Him Through The Spicy Forest Onward Come | |
4-7 | Hail, Mother Of Mankind, Whose Fruitful Womb | |
4-8 | O Adam, One Almighty Is, From Whom | |
4-9 | High Matter Thou Enjoinest Me, O Prime Of Men | |
4-10 | Now When Ambrosial Night With Clouds Exhaled | |
4-11 | Mean While The Eternal Eye, Whose Sight Discerns | |
4-12 | Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers | |
4-13 | So Spake The Fervent Angel; But His Zeal | |
4-14 | Book 6 - The Argument Raphael Continues To Relate | |
4-15 | Book 6 - All Night The Dreadless Angel, Unpursued | |
4-16 | So Spake The Sovran Voice, And Clouds Began | |
4-17 | So Pondering, And From His Armed Peers | |
4-18 | Now Storming Fury Rose | |
4-19 | So Spake The Prince Of Angels; To Whom Thus | |
5-1 | Mean While In Other Parts Like Deeds Deserved | |
5-2 | He Sat; And In The Assembly Next Upstood | |
5-3 | Now When Fair Morn Orient In Heaven Appeared | |
5-4 | Satan Beheld Their Plight | |
5-5 | Effulgence Of My Glory, Son Beloved | |
5-6 | So Said, He, O'er His Scepter Bowing, Rose | |
5-7 | So Spake The Son, And Into Terrour Changed | |
5-8 | Book 7 - The Argument Raphael At The Request Of Adam | |
5-9 | Book 7 - Descend From Heaven, Urania, By That Name | |
5-10 | Great Things, And Full Of Wonder In Our Ears | |
5-11 | At Least Our Envious Foe Hath Failed, Who Thought | |
5-12 | Then Staid The Fervid Wheels, And In His Hand | |
5-13 | He Scarce Had Said, When The Bare Earth, Till Then | |
5-14 | And God Said, Let The Waters Generate | |
5-15 | The Sixth, And Of Creation Last, Arose | |
5-16 | Here Finished He, And All That He Had Made | |
6-1 | Book 8 - The Argument - Adam Inquires Concerning Celestial Motions | |
6-2 | Book 8 - The Angel Ended, And In Adam's Ear | |
6-3 | And Raphael Now, To Adam's Doubt Proposed | |
6-4 | But Whether Thus These Things, Or Whether Not | |
6-5 | For Man To Tell How Human Life Began | |
6-6 | Sternly He Pronounced The Rigid Interdiction | |
6-7 | He Ceased; I Lowly Answered. To Attain | |
6-8 | She Heard Me Thus; And Though Divinely Brought | |
6-9 | To Whom Thus, Half Abashed, Adam Replied | |
6-10 | Book 9 - The Argument - Satan Having Compast The Earth | |
6-11 | Book 9 - No More Of Talk Where God Or Angel Guest | |
6-12 | More Justly, Seat Worthier Of Gods, As Built | |
6-13 | Now, When As Sacred Light Began To Dawn | |
6-14 | Offspring Of Heaven And Earth, And All Earth's Lord! | |
6-15 | To Whom Thus Adam Fervently Replied | |
6-16 | For Now, And Since First Break Of Dawn, The Fiend | |
7-1 | So Spake The Enemy Of Mankind, Enclosed | |
7-2 | So Glozed The Tempter, And His Proem Tuned | |
7-3 | Lead Then, Said Eve. He, Leading, Swiftly Rolled | |
7-4 | Of Good, How Just? Of Evil, If What Is Evil | |
7-5 | He Ended; And His Words, Replete With Guile | |
7-6 | Earth Felt The Wound; And Nature From Her Seat | |
7-7 | To Him She Hasted; In Her Face Excuse | |
7-8 | Bold Deed Thou Hast Presumed, Adventurous Eve | |
7-9 | Eve, Now I See Thou Art Exact Of Taste | |
7-10 | So Counselled He, And Both Together Went | |
7-11 | Book 10 - The Argument - Mans Transgression Known | |
7-12 | Book 10 - Mean While The Heinous And Despiteful Act | |
7-13 | Thus Saying, From His Radiant Seat He Rose | |
7-14 | Which When The Lord God Heard, Without Delay | |
7-15 | Mean While, Ere Thus Was Sinned And Judged On Earth | |
7-16 | So, If Great Things To Small May Be Compared | |
8-1 | So Saying He Dismissed Them; They With Speed | |
8-2 | So Having Said, A While He Stood, Expecting | |
8-3 | Mean While In Paradise The Hellish Pair | |
8-4 | Such Was Their Song | |
8-5 | O Miserable Of Happy! Is This The End | |
8-6 | Yet One Doubt Pursues Me Still, Lest All I Cannot Die | |
8-7 | Thus Adam To Himself Lamented Loud | |
8-8 | Forsake Me Not Thus, Adam! Witness Heaven | |
8-9 | But Adam, With Such Counsel Nothing Swayed | |
8-10 | Book 11 - The Argument - The Son Of God Presents To His Father | |
8-11 | Book 11 - Thus They, In Lowliest Plight, Repentant Stood | |
8-12 | O Sons, Like One Of Us Man Is Become | |
8-13 | So Spake, So Wished Much Humbled Eve; But Fate | |
8-14 | O Unexpected Stroke, Worse Than Of Death! | |
8-15 | But This Pre-Eminence Thou Hast Lost, Brought Down | |
8-16 | But Him The Gentle Angel By The Hand | |
9-1 | Immediately A Place Before His Eyes Appeared | |
9-2 | He Looked, And Saw A Spacious Plain, Whereon | |
9-3 | He Looked, And Saw Wide Territory Spread | |
9-4 | He Looked, And Saw The Face Of Things Quite Changed | |
9-5 | To Whom Thus Michael. | |
9-6 | The Ark No More Now Floats, But Seems On Ground | |
9-7 | Book 12 - The Argument - The Angel Michael Continues From The Flood | |
9-8 | Book 12 - As One Who In His Journey Bates At Noon | |
9-9 | To Whom Thus Michael | |
9-10 | But First, The Lawless Tyrant, Who Denies | |
9-11 | Here Adam Interposed. O Sent From Heaven | |
9-12 | There In Captivity He Lets Them Dwell | |
9-13 | For This He Shall Live Hated, Be Blasphemed | |
9-14 | So Spake The Arch-Angel Michael; Then Paused | |
9-15 | How Soon Hath Thy Prediction, Seer Blest |
Credits
- Edited By – Sarah Butcher
- Narrator – Anton Lesser
- Producer – Nicolas Soames
- Recorded By – Daryl Chapman
Notes
Total time: 10:42:25
Includes a 36 page colour/black and white booklet.
Each CD is housed in stiff cardboard sleeve and all contained in a stiff two part cardboard box.
CD 9 includes the complete text of Paradise Lost.
Includes a 36 page colour/black and white booklet.
Each CD is housed in stiff cardboard sleeve and all contained in a stiff two part cardboard box.
CD 9 includes the complete text of Paradise Lost.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode: 9789626343500
- Barcode: 9 789626 343500
- Other (ISBN): 9-626-34350-8
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