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Ep 31 - Milton's Paradise Lost (Book I)

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Paradise Lost - The First Time I Read It

"The first time I read Paradise Lost it was in my second year of Oxford University and I did not understand it," he says. "These passages stopped me and they made my heart race and I knew that there was something divine there." He adds: "I now appreciate the irony of Milton and Milton's rebellious subversion"

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