Album 2005 on Naxos Audiobooks label
Spoken Word (Audiobook, Poetry)
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.
John Milton , 1608-1674 GB album by | |
Anton Lesser , *1952 GB narrator |
Sarah Butcher edited by |
Nicola Soames producer |
Daryl Chapman recorded by |
No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
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1 | Book 1 - The Argument - This First Book Proposes | John Milton | ||
2 | Book 1 - Of Man's First Disobedience, And The Fruit | John Milton | ||
3 | There The Companions Of His Fall | John Milton | ||
4 | Whereto With Speedy Words Th' Arch-Fiend Replied | John Milton | ||
5 | Forthwith Upright He Rears From Off The Pool | John Milton | ||
6 | He Scarce Had Ceased When The Superior Fiend | John Milton | ||
7 | The Chief Were Those Who, From The Pit Of Hell | John Milton | ||
8 | Next Came One Who Mourned In Earnest | John Milton | ||
9 | All These And More Came Flocking | John Milton | ||
10 | Thus Far These Beyond Compare Of Mortal Prowess | John Milton | ||
11 | There Stood A Hill Not Far, Whose Grisly Top | John Milton | ||
12 | Meanwhile The Winged Heralds, By Command | John Milton | ||
13 | Book 2 - The Argument - The Consultation Begun | John Milton | ||
14 | Book 2 - High On A Throne Of Royal State | John Milton | ||
15 | He Ended Frowning, And His Look Denounced | John Milton | ||
16 | War, Therefore, Open Or Concealed, Alike | John Milton | ||
17 | Thus Belial, With Words Clothed In Reason's Garb | John Milton | ||
18 | He Scarce Had Finished, When Such Murmur Filled | John Milton | ||
19 | Thus Beelzebub Pleaded His Devilish Counsel | John Milton | ||
20 | This Said, He Sat; And Expectation Held | John Milton | ||
21 | The Stygian Council Thus Dissolved; And Forth | John Milton | ||
22 | Beyond This Flood A Frozen Continent | John Milton | ||
23 | Meanwhile The Adversary Of God And Man | John Milton | ||
24 | So Spake The Grisly Terror, And In Shape | John Milton | ||
25 | She Finished; And The Subtle Fiend His Lore Soone Learned | John Milton | ||
26 | Thus Saying, From Her Side The Fatal Key | John Milton | ||
27 | T' Whom Satan, Turning Boldly, Thus: - Ye Powers | John Milton | ||
28 | Book 3 - The Argument - God Sitting On His Throne | John Milton | ||
29 | Book 3 - Hail, Holy Light, Offspring Of Heaven Firstborn | John Milton | ||
30 | Only Begotten Son, Seest Thou What Rage | John Milton | ||
31 | O Father, Gracious Was That Word Which Clos'd | John Milton | ||
32 | Father, Thy Word Is Past, Man Shall Find Grace | John Milton | ||
33 | Thou, Therefore, Whom Thou Only Canst Redeem | John Milton | ||
34 | No Sooner Had The Almighty Ceased, But All | John Milton | ||
35 | Mean While Upon The Firm Opacous Globe | John Milton | ||
36 | All This Dark Globe The Fiend Found As He Passed | John Milton | ||
37 | There Lands The Fiend, A Spot Like Which Perhaps | John Milton | ||
38 | Uriel, For Thou Of Those Seven Spirits That Stand | John Milton | ||
39 | Book 4 - The Argument - Satan Now In Prospect Of Eden | John Milton | ||
40 | Book 4 - O, For That Warning Voice, Which He, Who Saw | John Milton | ||
41 | But Say I Could Repent, And Could Obtain | John Milton | ||
42 | Now To The Ascent Of That Steep Savage Hill | John Milton | ||
43 | Not That Fair Field Of Enna, Where Proserpine Gathering | John Milton | ||
44 | O Hell! What Do Mine Eyes With Grief Behold! | John Milton | ||
45 | To Whom Thus Eve Replied. O Thou For Whom | John Milton | ||
46 | So Spake Our General Mother, And With Eyes | John Milton | ||
47 | So Saying, His Proud Step He Scornful Turned | John Milton | ||
48 | Now Came Still Evening On, And Twilight Gray | John Milton | ||
49 | Thus Talking, Hand In Hand Alone They Passed | John Milton | ||
50 | These, Lulled By Nightingales, Embracing Slept | John Milton | ||
51 | The Fiend Replied Not, Overcome With Rage | John Milton | ||
52 | To Whom The Warrior Angel Soon Replied | John Milton | ||
53 | Book 5 - The Argument Morning Approacht | John Milton | ||
54 | Book 5 - Now Morn, Her Rosy Steps In The Eastern Clime | John Milton | ||
55 | Thus Eve Her Night Related, And Thus Adam Answered Sad | John Milton | ||
56 | These Are Thy Glorious Works, Parent Of Good | John Milton | ||
57 | On To Their Morning's Rural Work They Haste | John Milton | ||
58 | Him Through The Spicy Forest Onward Come | John Milton | ||
59 | Hail, Mother Of Mankind, Whose Fruitful Womb | John Milton | ||
60 | O Adam, One Almighty Is, From Whom | John Milton | ||
61 | High Matter Thou Enjoinest Me, O Prime Of Men | John Milton | ||
62 | Now When Ambrosial Night With Clouds Exhaled | John Milton | ||
63 | Mean While The Eternal Eye, Whose Sight Discerns | John Milton | ||
64 | Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers | John Milton | ||
65 | So Spake The Fervent Angel; But His Zeal | John Milton | ||
66 | Book 6 - The Argument Raphael Continues To Relate | John Milton | ||
67 | Book 6 - All Night The Dreadless Angel, Unpursued | John Milton | ||
68 | So Spake The Sovran Voice, And Clouds Began | John Milton | ||
69 | So Pondering, And From His Armed Peers | John Milton | ||
70 | Now Storming Fury Rose | John Milton | ||
71 | So Spake The Prince Of Angels; To Whom Thus | John Milton | ||
72 | Mean While In Other Parts Like Deeds Deserved | John Milton | ||
73 | He Sat; And In The Assembly Next Upstood | John Milton | ||
74 | Now When Fair Morn Orient In Heaven Appeared | John Milton | ||
75 | Satan Beheld Their Plight | John Milton | ||
76 | Effulgence Of My Glory, Son Beloved | John Milton | ||
77 | So Said, He, O'er His Scepter Bowing, Rose | John Milton | ||
78 | So Spake The Son, And Into Terrour Changed | John Milton | ||
79 | Book 7 - The Argument Raphael At The Request Of Adam | John Milton | ||
80 | Book 7 - Descend From Heaven, Urania, By That Name | John Milton | ||
81 | Great Things, And Full Of Wonder In Our Ears | John Milton | ||
82 | At Least Our Envious Foe Hath Failed, Who Thought | John Milton | ||
83 | Then Staid The Fervid Wheels, And In His Hand | John Milton | ||
84 | He Scarce Had Said, When The Bare Earth, Till Then | John Milton | ||
85 | And God Said, Let The Waters Generate | John Milton | ||
86 | The Sixth, And Of Creation Last, Arose | John Milton | ||
87 | Here Finished He, And All That He Had Made | John Milton | ||
88 | Book 8 - The Argument - Adam Inquires Concerning Celestial Motions | John Milton | ||
89 | Book 8 - The Angel Ended, And In Adam's Ear | John Milton | ||
90 | And Raphael Now, To Adam's Doubt Proposed | John Milton | ||
91 | But Whether Thus These Things, Or Whether Not | John Milton | ||
92 | For Man To Tell How Human Life Began | John Milton | ||
93 | Sternly He Pronounced The Rigid Interdiction | John Milton | ||
94 | He Ceased; I Lowly Answered. To Attain | John Milton | ||
95 | She Heard Me Thus; And Though Divinely Brought | John Milton | ||
96 | To Whom Thus, Half Abashed, Adam Replied | John Milton | ||
97 | Book 9 - The Argument - Satan Having Compast The Earth | John Milton | ||
98 | Book 9 - No More Of Talk Where God Or Angel Guest | John Milton | ||
99 | More Justly, Seat Worthier Of Gods, As Built | John Milton | ||
100 | Now, When As Sacred Light Began To Dawn | John Milton | ||
101 | Offspring Of Heaven And Earth, And All Earth's Lord! | John Milton | ||
102 | To Whom Thus Adam Fervently Replied | John Milton | ||
103 | For Now, And Since First Break Of Dawn, The Fiend | John Milton | ||
104 | So Spake The Enemy Of Mankind, Enclosed | John Milton | ||
105 | So Glozed The Tempter, And His Proem Tuned | John Milton | ||
106 | Lead Then, Said Eve. He, Leading, Swiftly Rolled | John Milton | ||
107 | Of Good, How Just? Of Evil, If What Is Evil | John Milton | ||
108 | He Ended; And His Words, Replete With Guile | John Milton | ||
109 | Earth Felt The Wound; And Nature From Her Seat | John Milton | ||
110 | To Him She Hasted; In Her Face Excuse | John Milton | ||
111 | Bold Deed Thou Hast Presumed, Adventurous Eve | John Milton | ||
112 | Eve, Now I See Thou Art Exact Of Taste | John Milton | ||
113 | So Counselled He, And Both Together Went | John Milton | ||
114 | Book 10 - The Argument - Mans Transgression Known | John Milton | ||
115 | Book 10 - Mean While The Heinous And Despiteful Act | John Milton | ||
116 | Thus Saying, From His Radiant Seat He Rose | John Milton | ||
117 | Which When The Lord God Heard, Without Delay | John Milton | ||
118 | Mean While, Ere Thus Was Sinned And Judged On Earth | John Milton | ||
119 | So, If Great Things To Small May Be Compared | John Milton | ||
120 | So Saying He Dismissed Them; They With Speed | John Milton | ||
121 | So Having Said, A While He Stood, Expecting | John Milton | ||
122 | Mean While In Paradise The Hellish Pair | John Milton | ||
123 | Such Was Their Song | John Milton | ||
124 | O Miserable Of Happy! Is This The End | John Milton | ||
125 | Yet One Doubt Pursues Me Still, Lest All I Cannot Die | John Milton | ||
126 | Thus Adam To Himself Lamented Loud | John Milton | ||
127 | Forsake Me Not Thus, Adam! Witness Heaven | John Milton | ||
128 | But Adam, With Such Counsel Nothing Swayed | John Milton | ||
129 | Book 11 - The Argument - The Son Of God Presents To His Father | John Milton | ||
130 | Book 11 - Thus They, In Lowliest Plight, Repentant Stood | John Milton | ||
131 | O Sons, Like One Of Us Man Is Become | John Milton | ||
132 | So Spake, So Wished Much Humbled Eve; But Fate | John Milton | ||
133 | O Unexpected Stroke, Worse Than Of Death! | John Milton | ||
134 | But This Pre-Eminence Thou Hast Lost, Brought Down | John Milton | ||
135 | But Him The Gentle Angel By The Hand | John Milton | ||
136 | Immediately A Place Before His Eyes Appeared | John Milton | ||
137 | He Looked, And Saw A Spacious Plain, Whereon | John Milton | ||
138 | He Looked, And Saw Wide Territory Spread | John Milton | ||
139 | He Looked, And Saw The Face Of Things Quite Changed | John Milton | ||
140 | To Whom Thus Michael. | John Milton | ||
141 | The Ark No More Now Floats, But Seems On Ground | John Milton | ||
142 | Book 12 - The Argument - The Angel Michael Continues From The Flood | John Milton | ||
143 | Book 12 - As One Who In His Journey Bates At Noon | John Milton | ||
144 | To Whom Thus Michael | John Milton | ||
145 | But First, The Lawless Tyrant, Who Denies | John Milton | ||
146 | Here Adam Interposed. O Sent From Heaven | John Milton | ||
147 | There In Captivity He Lets Them Dwell | John Milton | ||
148 | For This He Shall Live Hated, Be Blasphemed | John Milton | ||
149 | So Spake The Arch-Angel Michael; Then Paused | John Milton | ||
150 | How Soon Hath Thy Prediction, Seer Blest | John Milton |