I highly recommend you read some William Blake. He was Milton's greatest critic (but a great admirer too): "The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of

I highly recommend you read some William Blake. He was Milton's greatest critic (but a great admirer too): "The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devils party without knowing it." --The Marriage of Heaven and Hell