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=== Conclusion ===
 
[[File:Charles Walter Stansby Williams.jpg|upright|thumb|right|[[Charles Williams (British writer)|Charles Williams]], to whom ''A Preface to Paradise Lost'' is dedicated, is regarded by Lewis as having set Milton criticism on the right track.]]
'''Chapter 19''', "Conclusion", gives "a very short estimate of the poem's value as a whole".<ref name=":0" /> He famously<ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last=Schwartz |first=Louis |title=The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-1107029460 |edition=1 |pages=76 |language=en}}</ref> describes the last two books as an "untransmuted lump of futurity",<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":6" /> and "inartistic".<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":0" /> He remarks on other critics, claiming that "after [[William Blake|Blake]], Milton criticism is lost in misunderstanding, and the true line is hardly found again until Mr. [[Charles Williams (British writer)|Charles Williams]]'s preface."<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":0" />