The reading therefore is very prose like, unfortunately. In other situations where elision is possible or even written, the syllables are sometimes pronounced in this reading. Milton pronounced ignominy as ignomy I would think, for example. There are few if any feminine endings in PL I believe, so unlike Shakespeare there may not be an 11th syllable (assuming words such as power are one syllable.) The meter and pronunciation here are sometimes incorrect. One cannot put "the" in where it does not go one must not add syllables to the line by making "ed" into a syllable where it does not belong. However, the beauty of PL is actually in the poetry, and since it is blank verse in iambic pentameter, that is how it must be read. I am not at all good at reading poetry aloud therefore I know the difficulty. See Wikipedia entry here.įor further information, including links to M4B audio book, online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. This is a recording of the text of Milton's first edition of 1667, which had ten books, unlike the second edition (1674) which was redivided into twelve books in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid. His work, which was dictated from memory and transcribed by his daughter, remains as one of the most powerful English poems. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Homer, Virgil, and Dante, and sought to create a work of art which fully represented the most basic tenets of the Protestant faith. Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style.
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