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A speech of Satan's from Book One of Milton's Paradise Lost. Read by Ian Richardson
From the First Book of 'Paradise Lost' (1874) by John Milton (1608-1674).
Introduced by John Gielgud and read by Ian Richardson.
From the 1984 se...
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I don't think Richardson was equal to this. He lets drama overgo poetry, always a fatal mistake. However, he delivers a superlative Sonnet 23. He does justice to that poem, but I don't think anyone has ever gone near to doing justice to Paradise Lost.
Richardson might have got there with proper t...