Milton'S Blindness / / Eleanor Gertrude Brown.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Brown, Eleanor Gertrude,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1968]; ©1968
• Year of Publication: 1968
• Language: English
• Series: Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Part I. The Cause of Milton's Blindness --; I. Medicine and Hygiene in the Seventeenth Century --; II. Evidence Relating to the Cause of Milton's Blindness --; III. Fantastic Views of the Cause of Milton's Blindness --; IV. Congenital Syphilis as an Improbable Cause --; V. Glaucoma as a Probable Cause --; VI. Myopia and Detachment of the Retina as a Probable Cause --; Part II. Autobiographical References to His Blindness --; VII. The Sonnets --; VIII. Paradise Lost --; IX. The Three Defences --; X. Familiar Letters --; Part III. Milton as Reflected in His Poetry --; XI. The Psalms --; XII. A Paradise Within --; XIII. Breaking the Image --; Part IV. Milton's Eyes Take Holiday --; XIV. The Eclipse --; XV. He Did Not Stand and Wait --; XVI. The Problem of Milton Autographs --; XVII. The Effects of Blindness --; XVIII. Praise and Dispraise --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231886536; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/brow92002
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Eleanor Gertrude Brown.

Studies the phase of Milton's life to focus on his blindness from its possible causes to autobiographical references in his poetry and literature.