Frequently has the disease recurred since, leaving the eyes in a state which has often prevented my reading for months, and makes me at this day incapable of bearing without injury any strong light by day or night. The complaint in my eyes which gave occasion to this address to my daughter first showed itself as a consequence of inflammation, caught at the top of Kirkstone, when I was over-heated by having carried up the ascent my eldest son, a lusty infant.
His own account in a comment on his poem A little Onward lend thy guiding hand is worth quoting: His daughter Dora and many others referred to him as “the blind poet.” 1,2 Considering his huge output of written works, this might occasion surprise. At times this was so severe that it restricted both his writing and reading. It is often reported that from 1805 until his death Wordsworth experienced recurring episodes of the infectious disease trachoma, which causes painful inflammation of the eyelids and conjunctiva and can cause blindness. A prolific writer of letters, essays, and poetry, he was elected poet laureate. He was the totemic father of the Lakeland poets, who extolled the relation between man and the natural world: a wedding between nature and the human mind that to him symbolized the mind of God.
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, on April 7, 1770. William Wordsworth: “The blind poet”? April 5, 2022
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