Demerits of Paradise Lost

• The scenes do not seem to be original but seemed to be copied from

various sources
• Similes are less but with high amplitude sometimes not comprehensible
• The vices and virtues have been skillfully applied but seemed to have
copied from Italian writers
• Adam and Eve’s innocent and guilty state are beyond human
comprehension.
• The man and woman who suffer are in such a state that no man and woman
would ever be in that state, so have little natural curiosity or sympathy
• There have been numerous verbal inaccuracies which can be ignored owing
to Milton blindness
• Paradise Lost has his inconveniences as it involved all those human action
and manners which no other man and woman can understand
• It deals with the truth which is not new and it raise no new emotions in our
mind
• Poetical pleasure and terror are too ponderous for the wings of the wits
• There is a full display of the united force of genius and study. We read a
book of universal knowledge
• There is lack human interest
• The spirits have sometimes been converted into body and form which further
creates confusion.
• Milton’s allegory of sin and death is undoubtedly faulty.
• Sin is indeed the mother of death and may be allowed to be portress of hell,
but when they stop Satan’s journey and when death offers him battle the
allegory is broken.
• Nothing speaks for this allegory but the author’s thought of its beauty
• Some objections can be made about the narration.
• Like Satan is brought before Gabriel with great expectation and is suffered
to go away unmolested.
• Sentiments of innocence must have been difficult to find.
• When Adam was reproached for his curiosity his answer lacks propriety it
it’s the speech of a man acquainted with many other men.
• Dryden remarks that Milton has some flats. This are only to say that parts
are not equal.
• In every work every part must be for the sake of others.
• Milton when he has expatiated in the sky may be allowed sometimes to visit
the Earth.
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