SOURCE: Johnson, Samuel. “Life of Milton.” In Lives of the English Poets, edited by G. B. Hill, Vol. 1, pp. 84-200. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1905.
In this excerpt originally published in 1779, Johnson praises the genius of Paradise Lost in superlative terms, reaffirming his earlier judgment that Milton was the greatest of the English poets.
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