Milton'S Blindness / / 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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| 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
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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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