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The Blind Milton (Thomas Uwins, c. 1817) "When I Consider How My Light is Spent" (also known as "On His Blindness") is one of the best known of the sonnets of John Milton (1608–1674). The last three lines are particularly well known; they conclude with "They also serve who only stand and wait", which is much quoted though rarely in context.
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant.His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including twelve books, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.
The poetic style of John Milton, also known as Miltonic verse, Miltonic epic, or Miltonic blank verse, was a highly influential poetic structure popularized by Milton. Although Milton wrote earlier poetry, his influence is largely grounded in his later poems: Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained , and Samson Agonistes .
Titlepage to 1645 Poems, with frontispiece depicting Milton surrounded by four muses, designed by William Marshall. Milton's 1645 Poems is a collection, divided into separate English and Latin sections, of John Milton's youthful poetry in a variety of genres, including such notable works as An Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Comus and Lycidas.
Title page of Paradise Regained (1671), the first publication of Samson Agonistes.. Milton began plotting various subjects for tragedies in a notebook created in the 1640s. Many of the ideas dealt with the topic of Samson, and he gave them titles such as Samson pursophorus or Hybristes ("Samson the Firebrand, or Samson the Violent"), Samson marriing or in Ramath Lechi, and Dagonalia (the ...
John Milton, "When I Consider How My Light is Spent", a 17th-century sonnet, is thought to be a reflection on his loss of sight. Helen Keller wrote several autobiographical works, beginning with The Story of My Life in 1903 (which inspired a 1959 Broadway play, The Miracle Worker ).
Elton John is sharing a health update about his sight. On Monday, Nov. 25, the singer-songwriter, 77, said in an interview with Good Morning America that he lost vision in his right eye in July ...
Books by Eleanor Gertrude Brown include Milton's Blindness (1934), a work of literary scholarship based on her doctoral dissertation about John Milton; Into the Light (1946), a book of poetry; and Corridors of Light (1958), a memoir of her own education, with an introduction by Harry Emerson Fosdick. [8] "To my interpretation of Milton's life ...