ANd he went blind, not sure if he wrote after that, and iirc he also used to scribe others’ works. Bigg Red will know! She used that phrase and thus I learned about this poem.
Yes, he did continue to produce poetry, and his daughter and others took his dictation.
He didn’t let the loss of sight stop him. AAMOF, after the blindness struck, he wrote his most well-known work “Paradise Lost”.