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Works of John Milton: Critical Commentary

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Milton, John

Milton, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critical Commentary

Milton attracted little critical attention in his own time, but in the
twenty-five years following his death leading critics of the period such as
Dryden and Roscommen rated him very highly as a heroic poet. In the early
eighteenth century, Addison's essays on Paradise Lost, which were frequently
reprinted, introduced Milton to a wider public.

Addison (1712):

Addison examined Paradise Lost "by the rules of epic poetry," according
to the criteria set up by Aristotle in his Poetics. He concluded that
Milton's epic consisted of one ...

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