Do provide addison's criticism on paradise lost

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Addison has done eighteen 'Spectator' papers on "Paradise Lost". His observations are as follows: - Uses Aristotle and Le Bossu's standards to measure the text as well as using these categories to open up the poem. - Addison conveys open-minded attentiveness. - He is not judgemental - He was impressed by Drydens review on Paradise Lost and twenty years later he remembered Milton's "The wantonness of a luxurious imagination" but he wants to adhere to control and order. - He sets out an undogmatic classicism by asserting that Paradise Lost is admitted to excellence amongst all epic poems. - His intention was to identify Paradise Lost as great as or equal to "Aeneid or Illiad" and not to find faults with it. - Addison also shows how often Milton draws on the Bible rather than the classics. - He defend's Milton's style by asserting that Homer follows the same. - Addison says whether an epic has happy or unhappy ending. The deeper truth lies in the "Felix Cupla" whose religious basis distinguishes it from traditional epics. Visit this journal article for more information. Damrosch, Leopold. “The Significance of Addison's Criticism.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, vol. 19, no. 3, 1979, pp. 421–430. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/450300. Accessed 4 Mar. 2021.