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Had to watch this for an assignment but I have to say I was quite intrigued and entertained. This was well informed.

He looked like Cromwell to me .

Milton plus MBV makes way more sense than I would have thought

Does any one know the name of the blind chap whom Armando read the poem to ?

I think Jesus had to die to show us not to fear death ! We humans are manipulated through our desires and fears . This manipulation desconnects us from God we become drawn deeper in to the materlal world through these manipulations .

You know you've made it when ... the BBC let you do a programme on your uni thesis! Thank you, this really is such a treat.

Sad but revealing that only older people even knew who he was. And this is progress? We are so much less educated than 12 year boys 50 years ago.

It's poor show that white people don't even know their own literary figures given that they had the greatest civilisation. Is standards declining?

Just some points for myself 38:28 point of conflict 39:18 blindness 41:53 fall (beyond human sight) 42:51 she plucked, she eat

Fantastic tribute to PL. A travesty so few read this masterpiece. Like the end of Ulysses full of kindness. We are on our own, but not really. The human condition is universal.

Thank you for so tender a glimpse into your wondrous mind and heart, too, Armando, and Milton's...🌹

I've only seen this person as a useless git. Never understood the love for him.

Really dumb comment by the narrator at the end when he said Milton really wanted to explain the ways of man to other men. No, he didn't. He said exactly what he meant to be the purpose of his poem at the start: to inform humans about the ways of God.

Galileo was a lying catholic Fiend and nothing he promoted was "science" at all, but rather, the exact opposite. And the Bible *vehemently* opposes everything he said in literally hundreds of different scriptures and countless ways.

The narrator is asserting a very crude & vulgar & inaccurate paraphrase of Milton when he says the poem describes the archangel "taking food into his digestive tract and then making an angel fart." That's not what the text actually says at all. This host is making the poem sound disgusting in ways that it actually isn't.

brilliant 💌💌💌

Is reading in a subway really necessary? Philomena Cunk was long overdue

The magic of iambic pentameter

Just listened to audio of this. Wonderful!

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Stand against whodo PERSECUTION.....

My brain is cahming…Ianucci and Milton

Brilliant!!! ...thank you ❤

Well after all of these years I think he finally finished that PHD

At 2:42 is he sitting on the toilet?

Just listened to several Harvard lectures On Milton. I found them tedious without the light of joy or love. Thank you for sharing your love and brilliance

Excellent!

Say what you will but Milton wouldn't make a pimple on Dante's ass.

Blazing cressets!

This was one of the greatest things I've ever watched.

This reading of the book on youtube made me fall DEEPLY in love with the poem, the language, Milton. It's abridged (I believe) but the voice acting is unparalleled: ruclips.net/video/GINzUBvQ5nw/видео.html

Background sounds are soooo well done.

Not so much about Milton, it's about christianity.

This is a great gift. I am rereading Milton in a whole new way. Thank you, sir and to the people or person who put this on RUclips thank you so much.

This was so very interesting!! I have been starting and pausing, and writing down almost every word. In my diary. I am so greatful for this production!!!

Oh my, what a fabulous treatment! I know the goal is to bring Milton to a wider audience by sharing the enthusiasm, amazement, power of the poetry and politics, but for those of us already of Milton’s party, we know where Ianucci is going. Here comes books are not dead things. The blind professor, here comes the late espoused saint. Now the man who serves prisoners defends poetry’s liberating power and we’re off to think of Milton in the Tower. Ianucci’s film gives Milton the fabulous, lively, human treatment he deserves. Bravo.

Notes for class: Day 2 - I though it’s interesting that Milton gained inspiration from Galileo in Italy -> he’s writing is scientific

No one in this country cares about epic poetry, it requires something greater than our sub-goldfish levels of concentration.

“Hosanna” isn’t “like an angels saying hurrah” its a plea to “save or preserve us”

I have been struggling to get my head around Paradise Lost for my English MA, this helped immensely, thank you x

Here knows when at the start, weird but an absolute banger

A river of bliss .. i just imagined the carebears in the clouds and stuff ... i m not a kid btw .... but stilll

Such type of documentaries are very good especially about the awareness which people don't have

This is a delightful documentary. Armando Iannucci's enthusiasm is infectious, and his erudition is humane and joyous. I want to learn about and read more of Milton, after being inspired by Iannucci's word-loving, adventurous exploration of the great writer's masterpiece.

Fantastic documentary, love Armando

Omg! Building *back* better.

54:19 You're so bad at television...

At 8.30 Armando introduces some 'meaningless phrases' or some of the earliest known spin as he calls it. Does any body know, but isn't it reminiscent of Thucydides and the corruption of language in the History of the Peloponnesian War?

It is a testament to the adaptogenic nature of art that, while some clearly see this poem as evidence of Milton's holy devotion, I can see nothing but an atheists manifesto.

"In between bouts of Club Penguin" Truly, a Paradise was lost....