Samuel Johnson wasn't a fan. He wrote of Paradise Lost: "Its perusal is a duty than a pleasure". "The confusion of spirit and matter which provides the whole n

Samuel Johnson wasn't a fan. He wrote of Paradise Lost: "Its perusal is a duty than a pleasure". "The confusion of spirit and matter which provides the whole narration of the war of heaven fills it with incongruity. And the book in which it is related is I believe, the favourite of children, and gradually neglected as knowledge is increased."