EPISODE · Jun 13, 2025 · 34 MIN
Milton 400 - Paradise Lost: Book 7
from Cambridge English Audio · host Faculty of English University of Cambridge
(N.B. These recordings were made during a live reading in late 2008 and are not professional quality. We've done what we can to clean them up, but please just bear in mind how old they are and how new we were!)This event was held on Thursday 23 October 2008 from around 9 am-9 pm, in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, Cambridge2.55 pm, Book VIIRead by: Daniel Wakelin, with Christopher Burlinson, Hester Lees-Jeffries, Leo Mellor, Subha Mukherji, Sophie Read, Gabriel Roberts, Marcus Tomalin, and Andrew ZurcherBook VII Summary by: Gabriel Roberts (2008)In Book VII Raphael continues his revelations to Adam. The book begins with a recapitulation of Milton's appeal for divine inspiration from Book I. Milton's invocation of Urania is directly paralleled with Adam's request for knowledge from Raphael. After warning Adam about the dangers of man's thirst for knowledge, Raphael proceeds to explain how the world was created, after Satan was banished from Heaven. He describes how God announced his intention to create the world, and how Heaven responded with rejoicing. God then initiated the Creation through the Son, his Word. The rest of the book charts the six days of Creation much as it is described by the account in Genesis. The last thing to be created is man. Book VII ends with a heavenly celebration of this last masterpiece of creation.
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(N.B. These recordings were made during a live reading in late 2008 and are not professional quality. We've done what we can to clean them up, but please just bear in mind how old they are and how new we were!)This event was held on Thursday 23 October 2008 from around 9 am-9 pm, in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, Cambridge2.55 pm, Book VIIRead by: Daniel Wakelin, with Christopher Burlinson, Hester Lees-Jeffries, Leo Mellor, Subha Mukherji, Sophie Read, Gabriel Roberts, Marcus Tomalin, and Andrew ZurcherBook VII Summary by: Gabriel Roberts (2008)In Book VII Raphael continues his revelations to Adam. The book begins with a recapitulation of Milton's appeal for divine inspiration from Book I. Milton's invocation of Urania is directly paralleled with Adam's request for knowledge from Raphael. After warning Adam about the dangers of man's thirst for knowledge, Raphael proceeds to explain how the world was created, after Satan was banished from Heaven. He describes how God announced his intention to create the world, and how Heaven responded with rejoicing. God then initiated the Creation through the Son, his Word. The rest of the book charts the six days of Creation much as it is described by the account in Genesis. The last thing to be created is man. Book VII ends with a heavenly celebration of this last masterpiece of creation.
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