Milton's Paradise Lost
may be called an Heroick Poem? Those who will not give it that Title, may call it (if they please) a
Divine Poem
. It
be sufficient to its Perfection, if it has in it all the Beauties of the highest kind of Poetry; and as for those who
alledge
it is not an Heroick Poem, they advance no more to the Diminution of it, than if they should say
Adam