L'Allegro
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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
Handel's "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato" also will be featured, and other Handel works will share a bill with two Haydn symphonies.
From Chicago Tribune ● Mar. 16, 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
L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato was choreographed by Mark Morris in 1988, and is perhaps the supreme expression of late 20th-century American modern dance.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2010
Milton, John, 86, 249; Paradise Lost, 110, 179, 180, 182, 320; L'Allegro, 41, 167, 310, 328; Samson Agonistes, 45, 310.
From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by David Nichol Smith
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