Milton's Blindness, Volume 69

able according affliction answer appear autobiographical believe cause certainly CHAPTER color conclude condition considered continued crystalline lens dark daughters death Defence detachment dictation died difficulty discussion disease effect English evidence experience face fact feel friends give given glaucoma hand History human Ibid idea indicate John Milton knowledge known least less Letter light lines lived London loss of sight Masson Milton's blindness mind nature never noted opinion Paradise Lost passage Perhaps period person Phosphenes physician poem poet poetry possible probably Professor proof Psalm quote reason reference regarded result retina Saurat says scholars Second Defence seems sense seventeenth century signature Smectymnuus sonnet statement suffered suggest syphilis theory things thou thought true University vision writing written York