Through a close reading of the text, this essay argues, against Dr. Johnson, that admirable craftsmanship is demonstrated in the rich, subtle interplay between form and content, and that organic unity alone will reasonably place Milton’s first sonnet On His Blindness among the first-rate of the genre. In the poem, two aspects of the persona, the man and the Christian, converse with each other. Their contradiction is resolved in the process of aestheticization, namely the sublimation of the personal experience in the sonnet form. The essay also traces the early China connections of the poem, mainly its translation in the missionary journal Chinese Serial and Wu Mi’s transwriting and teaching of it.