...conclusion, for Johnson's commentary on the poem begins with the extraordinary claim that Paradise Lost, "considered with respect to design, may claim the...the second, among the productions of the human mind" (170). Some critics, trying to reconcile these apparently conflicting views, have been led to argue...

...it." Similarly, Johnson's gestures at ranking works according to artistic excellence - Paradise Lost, "considered with respect to design, may claim the...place, and with respect to performance the second" could seem both unequivocal and perfunctory, as if they were merely rhetorical and not actually positing...

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...Milton's scholarship "places him in the first rank of writers and criticks." Most tellingly, Johnson calls Paradise Lost "a poem which, considered with respect...performance the second, among the productions of the human mind."26 As Paul Fussell observes,"This is a remarkable flux of enthusiasm from Johnson, a man who...

...acrimonious republican with a Turkish contempt for females, and yet he said that "Paradise Lost [is] a poem which, considered with respect to design, may...the second, among the productions of the human mind" ("Milton" 1.170). (As is usual, priority is assigned to the Iliad.) Johnson therefore concludes his...

...'Life of Milton', Dr. Johnson says: "... the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epic poem, as it requires an assemblage of all the powers...which are singly sufficient for other compositions ... "; further, Milton's Lycidas is severely criticised because "It's form is that of a pastoral, easy,...

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