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  1. 'On His Blindness' is a precursor to 'Lycidas'
  2. 'On His Blindness' is a curtel sonnet
  3. Milton did not give a title to his sonnet. The title 'On His Blindness' is given by later anthologists
  4. None of the above
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Option 3 : Milton did not give a title to his sonnet. The title 'On His Blindness' is given by later anthologists

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  • "When I Consider How My Light is Spent" is one of the best known sonnets of John Milton. 
  • The sonnet was first published in Milton's 1673 Poems in his autograph notebook, known as the "Trinity Manuscript". He gave it the number 19, but in the published book it was numbered 16. 
  • It is popularly given the title On His Blindness, but there is no evidence that Milton used this title; it was assigned a century later by Thomas Newton in his 1761 edition of Milton's poetry. 
  • Thus, we can conclude that Milton did not give a title to his sonnet. The title 'On His Blindness' is given by later anthologists.
     

  • The sonnet is in the Petrarchan form, but adheres to the Miltonic conception of the form, with a greater usage of enjambment or run-on sentences.
  • Most scholars believe that it was composed sometime between June and October 1655, when Milton's blindness was essentially complete.
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