A Preface to Paradise Lost

De: C. S. Lewis

Narrado por: John Lee

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A Genius Guiding is Through a Classic

How could I possibly resist getting the chance to hear the great C.S. Lewis’ thoughts on a classic work, especially since he was a literary scholar at Oxford and Cambridge?

Another Scholastic Treasure from CSL

As with all his literary criticism, Lewis is here operating at his highest level of expertise. While he is invaluable as a lay theologian and philosopher (because he distills highly complex concepts and makes them accessible and clear), in those modes of popular writing (Mere Christianity, Problem of Pain, et al), he never claims more than to be sort of translating the high thoughts of others into graspable prose.

However, in this book (and also in The Discarded Image and the soon-to-be-audible English Literature from the Sixteenth Century), Lewis expounds as a true master.

If you're coming to this book as a CSL fan first, with only a peripheral interest in Milton's epic, you may still have a good time with it, though, because the book's subject matter and the history of bad takes on Milton set Lewis up to talk religion often and insightfully along the way.

John Lee is a great choice for the narration. Sometimes he hits his "t"s like it's THE MOST IMPORTANT T SOUND EVER SPOKEN, but it's nothing your treble settings can't smoothe out.

I think it's a miracle these scholarly CSL books are getting performed on audible.

A very intellectual review

Here C.S. Lewis reviews Paradise Lost. He looks much more at the literary aspect of the book rather than its theological ones, though he does touch on some. It’s nothing like his Screwtape Letters or The Great Divorce for those who are familiar with these works of his. Not the most riveting read/listen, but it wasn’t awful.