Il Penseroso
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Yet Iyer retains a lightness of spirit so different from Greene's dark "slough of despond" that the two bring to mind John Milton's pair of contrasting poems "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso."
From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2012
In images such as The Lonely Tower, done to accompany a line from "Il Penseroso", Palmer turns a rural Surrey scene into an unsettling arcadia, complete with a phantasmagorical night sky.
From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2011
From the beginning — “Hence, loathed Melancholy” cries L’Allegro; “Hence, vain deluding joys” cries Il Penseroso — it is evident that each has the other on his or her mind.
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2010
Compare the company which Il Penseroso entreats Melancholy to bring along with her with that which L’Allegro wishes to see attending Mirth.
From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John
As for L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, who shall praise them fitly?
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George
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