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Lewis challenges Tillyard’s claim that Milton’s Paradise Lost “is really about, the true state of Milton’s mind when he wrote it.”⁴⁵ Lewis calls this approach The Personal Heresy, because, as has been mentioned, it takes the reader’s attention away from the text itself to focus on the author. That approach is a distraction. Lewis sets forth six reasons why he rejects Tillyard’s claim.