I. Medicine and Hygiene in the Seventeenth Century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Part I. The Cause of Milton’s Blindness
5. I. Medicine and Hygiene in the Seventeenth Century 3
6. II. Evidence Relating to the Cause of Milton’s Blindness 16
7. III. Fantastic Views of the Cause of Milton’s Blindness 24
8. IV. Congenital Syphilis as an Improbable Cause 28
9. V. Glaucoma as a Probable Cause 39
10. VI. Myopia and Detachment of the Retina as a Probable Cause 43
11. Part II. Autobiographical References to His Blindness
12. VII. The Sonnets 51
13. VIII. Paradise Lost 59
14. IX. The Three Defences 65
15. X. Familiar Letters 74
16. Part III. Milton as Reflected in His Poetry
17. XI. The Psalms 81
18. XII. A Paradise Within 86
19. XIII. Breaking the Image 92
20. Part IV. Milton’s Eyes Take Holiday
21. XIV. The Eclipse 103
22. XV. He Did Not Stand and Wait 110
23. XVI. The Problem of Milton Autographs 125
24. XVII. The Effects of Blindness 130
25. XVIII. Praise and Dispraise 139
26. Bibliography 145
27. Index 161