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

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

Table of Contents

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