tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476715296546529134.post969916051208793169..comments2013-09-10T15:45:03.993+10:00Comments on Literary Leaves: John Milton and the ImaginationDr Paul Fearnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18148875704448818543noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7476715296546529134.post-68248167873693313262012-07-20T08:30:47.968+10:002012-07-20T08:30:47.968+10:00Add to that list Homer's Odyssey and Iliad, Ho...Add to that list Homer's Odyssey and Iliad, Homer was said to be blind. <br /><br />I sometimes wonder what would happen to my writing if I went blind, like Milton. I don't think I'd give up... but it might be a few years before I was able to write confidently again. <br /><br />I'm glad I do things in multiple mediums now - pub poetry, blog writing - since it seems to me that's better insurance against that day of blindness, if it ever comes. It'd be much harder for a person who wrote almost entirely with the expectation of being published in book/magazine form having to make that radical shift later in life, in their 50s, say.TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.com