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    Who in English literature suffered from glaucoma and wrote a famous sonnet on the consequences of the ensuing blindness for his career?

    Question #97569. Asked by Flem-ish. (Jul 15 08 12:49 PM)


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    		John Milton (1608-1674) - "The probable onset of glaucoma finally resulted by 1654 in total blindness, forcing him to dictate his verse and prose to amanuenses, one of whom was the poet Andrew Marvell."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_milton

    The sonnet was: "On His Blindness."

    http://www.answers.com/topic/on-his-blindness-sonnet-16-poem-3



    Jul 15 08, 1:18 PM

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