Adam and Eve

John Milton (1608 - 1674)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Adam and Eve (From “Paradise Lost,” Fourth Book) by John Milton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 (though written nearly ten years earlier) in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification; most of the poem was written while Milton was blind, and was transcribed for him.

Milton first presents Adam and Eve in Book IV with impartiality. The relationship between Adam and Eve is one of "mutual dependence, not a relation of domination or hierarchy." While the author does place Adam above Eve in regard to his intellectual knowledge, and in turn his relation to God, he also grants Eve the benefit of knowledge through experience. ( Summary from Wikipedia)

Genre(s): Poetry, Epics, Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by AMY Amy
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Play 02 Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by BWB B. W. Baugh
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Play 03 Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by DL David Lawrence
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Play 04 Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by Elli Elli
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Play 05 Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by FS fshort
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Play 06 Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by GC Snapdragon
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Play 07 Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by GHS Algy Pug
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Play 08 Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by JCM Jason Mills
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Play 09 Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by LAH Lee Ann Howlett
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Play 10 Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by LLB Lewis
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Play 11 Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by MG Martin Geeson
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Play 12 Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by PAB Philip A. Burke
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Play 13 Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by REF Rhonda Federman
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Play 14 Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by RN ravenotation
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Play 15 Adam And Eve (From Paradise Lost, Fourth Book) - Read by TG TriciaG
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