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...Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, Johnson describes Milton's epic as "one of those books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again" (Samuel Johnson: The Oxford Authors, ed. Donald Greene [Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,...

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...they have often been less so in their affection. Samuel Johnson's pungent observation that "Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down and forgets to take up again"4 has too often been borne out in experience. It is not a poem that sits comfortingly by the...

...in the margins of his copy of Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets,' where he found the opinion that 'we read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and...overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation'." The poet's association with republicanism made him politically suspect, and Fuseli himself was sometimes...

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...always been combated, and always has prevailed. 37 The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands,...lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitful Lives of the English Poets "Milton" (1779-1781) 38 [Of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock:] New...