"the problem with Milton's poetry" is that "it is 'more Miltonic than Christian'".

     David Quint, in Inside Paradise lost:  reading the designs of Milton's epic (Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press, 2014), as quoted by Jessica Hooten Wilson, in "Of the Devil's party?", Books and culture 21, no. 1 (January/February 2015), 38.