JOHN MILTON ON HIS BLINDNESS

John Milton on His Blindness

John Milton on His Blindness

John Milton is considered one of the famous poets of the English language whose eyesight began to fail in the late 1644. By the year 1652, he was totally blind and in spite of that he wrote some famous poems like, Paradise Regained and Paradise Lost. Many scholars rank Milton as second only to Shakespeare in poetic ability. John Milton was blind when he wrote his first poetry. He dictated his poem Paradise Lost to his daughter (Campbell, 2008).

The poem commences with the poet's concern of the ...