Milton, J.: Essential John Milton (The)

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The Essential John Milton (more info)
Anton Lesser, reader
John Milton,
Derek Jacobi, reader
Samantha Bond, reader


1. PARADISE LOST Book I Line 1: Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit - 07:52
2. Line 128: O Prince, O chief of many throned Powers - 04:47
3. Line 242: Is this the region, this the soil, the clime - 06:38
4. Line 522: All these and more came flocking; but with looks - 05:31
5. Line 622: O myriads of immortal Spirits, O Powers - 05:35
6. Line 722: …Th' ascending pile - 04:20
7. Book II Line 1: High on a throne of royal state, which far - 07:31
8. Line 119: I should be much for open war, O Peers - 06:45
9. Line 229: Either to disenthrone the King of Heav'n - 04:43
10. Line 310: Thrones and imperial Powers, offspring of Heav'n - 05:18
11. Line 390: Well have ye judged, well ended long debate - 02:39
12. Line 430: O progeny of Heav'n, empyreal Thrones - 03:02
13. Line 506: The Stygian Council thus dissolved; and forth - 05:51
14. Line 704: So spake the grisly terror, and in shape - 08:40

The Essential John Milton (more info)
Anton Lesser, reader
John Milton,
Derek Jacobi, reader
Samantha Bond, reader


1. Line 850: The key of this infernal pit by due - 07:00
2. Line 968: T' whom Satan turning boldly thus. Ye Powers - 05:04
3. Book III Paraphrase: God sitting on his throne sees Satan… - 01:54
4. Book IV Line 1: O for that warning voice, which he who saw - 07:24
5. Line 114: Thus while he spake, each passion dimmed his face - 03:18
6. Line 172: Now to th' ascent of that steep savage hill - 03:35
7. Line 246: …thus was this place - 06:20
8. Line 358: O Hell! What do mine eyes with grief behold - 05:29
9. Line 440: To whom thus Eve replied. O thou for whom - 03:16
10. Line 492: So spake our general mother, and with eyes - 03:09
11. Books V–VIII Paraphrase: Meanwhile, Uriel, descending - 02:16
12. Book IX Line 1: No more of talk where God or angel guest - 05:33
13. Line 99: O earth, how like to Heav'n, if not preferr'd - 06:57
14. Line 204: And Eve first to her husband thus began. - 03:48
15. Line 270: To whom the virgin majesty of Eve - 05:27
16. Line 376: So spake the patriarch of mankind, but Eve - 07:07

The Essential John Milton (more info)
Anton Lesser, reader
John Milton,
Derek Jacobi, reader
Samantha Bond, reader


1. Line 494: So spake the Enemy of mankind, enclosed - 04:13
2. Line 567: To whom the guileful Tempter thus replied. - 02:37
3. Line 613: So talked the spirited sly snake; and Eve - 03:39
4. Line 679: O sacred, wise and wisdom-giving plant - 04:13
5. Line 745: Great are thy virtues, doubtless, best of fruits - 06:56
6. Line 856: Hast thou not wondered Adam, at my stay? - 02:35
7. Line 896: O fairest of Creation, last and best - 04:42
8. Line 960: So Adam, and thus Eve to him replied. - 04:43
9. Line 1034: So said he, and forbore not glance or toy - 06:18
10. Line 1134: Would thou hadst hearkened to my words, and stayed - 03:15
11. Book X Paraphrase: Man's disobedience known - 00:38
12. Line 68: Father Eternal, thine is to decree - 09:07
13. Line 229: Meanwhile ere thus was sinned and judged on earth - 04:58
14. Line 354: O parent, these are thy magnific deeds - 03:56
15. Line 460: Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers - 07:19
16. Books XI and XII Paraphrase: Meanwhile Sin and Death rejoice - 01:52
17. Book XII Line 553: How soon hath thy prediction, seer blest - 07:53

The Essential John Milton (more info)
Anton Lesser, reader
John Milton,
Derek Jacobi, reader
Samantha Bond, reader


1. Paradise Regained – Book I - 03:48
2. Oh ancient powers of Air and this wide World - 04:31
3. So to the coast of Jordan he directs - 03:54
4. Meanwhile the Son of God, who yet some days - 04:36
5. This having heard, straight I again revolved - 02:52
6. Full forty days he passed – whether on hill - 03:54
7. Whom thus answered the Arch-Fiend, now undisguised: - 03:10
8. To whom our Saviour sternly thus replied: - 03:41
9. So spake our Saviour; but the subtle Fiend, - 03:32
10. Book II - 03:30
11. Thus they out of their plaints new hope resume - 03:18
12. The while her Son, tracing the desert wild, - 03:51
13. To whom quick answer Satan thus returned: - 03:38
14. He ceased, and heard their grant in loud acclaim; - 03:46
15. He viewed it round; - 04:34
16. 'What doubts the Son of God to sit and eat?' - 04:18
17. To whom thus Jesus patiently replied: - 04:05

The Essential John Milton (more info)
Anton Lesser, reader
John Milton,
Derek Jacobi, reader
Samantha Bond, reader


1. Book III - 03:14
2. To whom our Saviour calmly thus replied - 04:10
3. To whom the Tempter, murmuring, thus replied - 04:36
4. To whom our Saviour answer thus returned - 04:15
5. With that (such power was given him then), he took - 03:43
6. He looked, and saw what numbers numberless - 04:26
7. To whom our Saviour answered thus, unmoved - 04:19
8. Book IV - 02:37
9. And now the Tempter thus his silence broke - 04:10
10. To whom the Son of God, unmoved, replied - 03:42
11. Whom thus our Saviour answered with disdain - 04:08
12. Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount - 02:55
13. To whom our Saviour sagely thus replied - 03:04
14. Or, if I would delight my private hours - 03:50
15. So saying, he took (for still he knew his power Not yet expired) - 03:30
16. Him walking on a sunny hill he found - 03:15
17. To whom the Fiend, now swoln with rage, replied - 03:46
18. But Satan, smitten with amazement, fell - 02:07
19. 'True Image of the Father, whether throned…' - 05:13

The Essential John Milton (more info)
Anton Lesser, reader
John Milton,
Derek Jacobi, reader
Samantha Bond, reader


1. At a Vacation Exercise - 06:46
2. L'Allegro - 07:19
3. Il Penseroso - 05:21
4. Or let my lamp, at midnight hour… - 05:06
5. At a Solemn Musick - 01:55
6. To Mr. H Lawes, on his Aires - 01:05
7. On Time - 01:17
8. On Shakespeare - 01:05
9. On the morning of Christ's Nativity - 05:49
10. Yea Truth, and Justice then… - 03:31
11. Sonnet: To the Lord General Cromwell - 01:13
12. Sonnet: On the detraction which followed… - 01:07
13. Sonnet: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont - 00:55
14. Lycidas - 06:25
15. cont. It was that fatal and perfidious bark… - 06:47
16. Sonnet: To the Nightingale - 00:56
17. Sonnet: On my 23rd Birthday - 01:38
18. from Paradise Lost – opening of Book I - 01:48
19. from Paradise Lost – Book 1 – The fall of Mulciber - 01:31
20. from Paradise Lost – opening of Book II - 01:52
21. from Paradise Lost – from Book XII - 01:30
22. from Paradise Regained - 01:39
23. Sonnet: Upon a Deceased Wife - 01:13
24. Sonnet: On his Blindness - 01:11
25. Sonnet: to Cyriack Skinner - 01:12
26. from Samson Agonistes - 02:05
27. The destruction of the Temple from Samson Agonistes - 02:11
28. The Final Chorus from Samson Agonistes - 00:48
29. from Comus, a Masque - 03:55

The Essential John Milton (more info)
Anton Lesser, reader
John Milton,
Derek Jacobi, reader
Samantha Bond, reader


1. Introduction to Areopagitica - 00:49
2. from Areopagitica - 06:58
3. Next, what more national corruption… - 06:35
4. What advantage is it to be a man… - 06:13
5. And now the time in special… - 05:48
6. Introduction to The Doctrine and Discipline - 00:41
7. from The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce - 05:36
8. How vain therefore is it…. - 06:49
9. I suppose it will be allow'd us… - 07:27
10. Introduction to The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates - 00:32
11. from The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates - 07:19
12. Since the king or magistrate… - 05:40

The Essential John Milton (more info)
Anton Lesser, reader
John Milton,
Derek Jacobi, reader
Samantha Bond, reader


1. John Milton: A Life - 07:59
2. John Milton was a republican and a Protestant. - 07:03
3. In the end, his time at Cambridge… - 07:16
4. The poem, a pastoral elegy… - 06:58
5. Speculation surrounds almost every facet… - 07:41
6. In 1644 he wrote what is still probably… - 07:01
7. Milton stayed in his role… - 08:08
8. This was a dangerous thing to be doing… - 07:14
9. The poem is a dark and dramatic one. - 07:20
10. He was still working, though. - 06:47

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