SOURCE: “On Paradise Lost,” in The Critical Response to John Milton's Paradise Lost, edited by Timothy C. Miller, Greenwood Press, 1997, pp. 28-29.
In the following dedicatory poem, which first appeared in the second edition of Paradise Lost, the poet Andrew Marvell praises his contemporary's bold and original effort that has “not miss'd one thought that could be fit” and whose greatness is in no way diminished for being in blank and not rhyming verse.
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