John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' from Book 12, Adam and Eve leave Paradise

John Milton (1608-1674)

This is the third of three readings from ‘Paradise Lost’.

This is from Book Twelve,  line 624 ff. It’s the end of the poem.

Although Adam and Eve are expelled from Paradise, they turn towards their future and the world is, literally, ‘all before them’. Although this is their punishment, it doesn’t sound like it. True they are banned from Paradise, but the poem escapes the theology and it sounds more like the start of a magnificent shred adventure, or the early days of a marriage.

And that’s enough Miton for a while.