Milton'S Blindness /
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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[1968]
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Colección: | Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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