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Read Paradise Lost Out Loud
- Read Paradise Lost aloud and listen to recordings to absorb its musical power.
- Record impressions after each book, date them, and track how your response changes.
First Night Reading At Oxford
- Benjamin first read Paradise Lost at Oxford and felt both confused and moved.
- A midnight passage about light and fall made his heart race and proved the poem's power.
Composed In Forty-Line Batches
- Milton composed Paradise Lost after going blind, receiving inspiration in batches of forty lines nightly.
- He dictated the poem to assistants, turning personal tragedy and political exile into epic creation.