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
"And L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, they are not bad."
From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Cf. the opening lines of Il Penseroso: "Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred!"
From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Robert Carruthers
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