• EP05 - Alone in the Darkness | Milton, “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent”

  • Jul 17 2021
  • Length: 55 mins
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EP05 - Alone in the Darkness | Milton, “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent”

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  • John Milton, “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent.” In the early 1650s John Milton lost his eyesight. Blindness forced him out of politics, where he had been an important figure in Oliver Cromwell’s government, and into retirement where he wrote some of the greatest poetry in all of literary history. In this sonnet, though, he wonders if he has anything left to offer God at all.

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