Q: Milton became blind at the age of:
a) 42
b) 44
c) 48
d) 45
Correct answer: b) 44
John Milton
John Milton was one of the greatest poets of the English language. He was best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost 1667. He was powerful, rhetoric prose and the eloquence of his poetry had an immense influence, especially in the eighteenth century. He was born in London. He began to write poetry in Latin, Italian and English. He wrote a series of pamphlets against episcopacy (1642), on divorce (1643), in defence of the liberty of the press (1644), and in support of the regicides (1649). In 1651, Milton became blind, but like Jorge Luis Borges centuries later, blindness helped him to stimulate his verbal richness. "He sacrifice his sight and remembered his first desire that be a poet", Borges wrote in one of his lectures. Milton became blind in 1652 when he was 44 years of age. His life was full of gloom and despair and he was overcome by sadness and grief.
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