A Day with John Milton

A Day with John Milton (1912) by May Byron. May Clarissa Gillington Byron (born in 1861 as Mary Clarissa Gillington, died 5 November 1936) was a British writer and poet. She specialised in writing biographies of artists, before going on to re-write some of J M Barrie's work for younger readers and to write cookbooks. "About four o'clock on a September morning of 1665,—when the sun was not yet shining upon his windows facing the Artillery Fields, and the autumnal dew lay wet upon his garden leaves,—John Milton awoke with his customary punctuality, and, true to his austere and abstemious mode of life, wasted no time over comfortable indolence. He rose and proceeded to dress, with the help of his manservant Greene. For, although he was but fifty-four years in age, his hands were partly crippled with gout and chalkstones, and his eyes, clear, bright and blue as they had always been to outward seeming, were both stone-blind"...