Rebeck is a word well known from Milton's exquisite "L'Allegro."
A poem like "L'Allegro" could never be written by an Australian.
L'Allegro has done with him, and Il Penseroso claims him for its own!
Milton's "lubbar-fiend" in L'Allegro has all the characteristics of a Brownie.
Elsewhere we have mentioned its resemblance to the "L'Allegro" of Milton.
In the same connection, Milton in "L'Allegro" also mentions the "friar's lantern."
I should like to see a picture, illustrating a part of L'Allegro.
L'Allegro (passages in), notes on Milton's minor poems, 316.
Il Penseroso is not more different from L'Allegro than was my anticipation from the charming reality.
It is when he writes Comus or L'Allegro that he is giving expression to his natural poetic bent.
