Il Penseroso ("the thinker") is a poem by John Milton, first found in the 1645/1646 quarto of verses The Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, published by Humphrey Moseley. It was presented as a companion piece to L'Allegro, a vision of poetic mirth. The speaker of this reflective ode dispels "vain deluding Joys" from his mind in a ten-line prelude, before invoking "divinest Melancholy" to inspire his future verses. The melancholic mood is idealised by the speaker as a means by which to "attain / To something like prophetic strain," and for the central action of Il Penseroso – which, like L'Allegro, proceeds in couplets of iambic tetrameter – the speaker speculates about the poetic inspiration that would transpire if the imagined goddess of Melancholy he invokes were his Muse. The highly digressive style Milton employs in L'Allegro and Il Penseroso dually precludes any summary of the poems' dramatic action as it renders them interpretively ambiguous to critics. However, it can surely be said that the vision of poetic inspiration offered by the speaker of Il Penseroso is an allegorical exploration of a contemplative paradigm of poetic genre.
IlPenseroso ("the thinker") is a poem by John Milton, first found in the 1645/1646 quarto of verses The Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin...
Mountain House, Catskill Mountains, Morning (c. 1844), Brooklyn Museum IlPenseroso (1845), Los Angeles County Museum of Art Home in the Woods (1847), Reynolda...
in the 1739 revivals of his Il Trionfo del Tempo and Acis and Galatea, and the next year in L'Allegro, ilPenseroso ed il Moderato. Half a century later...
(1751) is considered the composer’s true last oratorio, this third version of Il trionfo comes later. Isabella Young sang the role of Counsel (Truth) at the...
Francesca Zambello the 1988 Mark Morris Dance Group work "L'Allegro, ilPenseroso ed il Moderato." and 1991 Mark Morris Dance Group work "The Hard Nut". Lobel's...
W. Shakespeare" (his first poem to appear in print), L'Allegro, and IlPenseroso. It appears in all his writings that he had the usual concomitant of...
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& Albert Museum, 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2013. "Milton, L'Allegro and IlPenseroso Archived 2019-03-06 at the Wayback Machine" Hesiod, Theogony from The...
and soloists; the chorus retired into the background. L'Allegro, ilPenseroso ed il Moderato has a rather diverting character; the work is light and fresh...
In this sense "Ilpenseroso", i. e. "Thoughtful", means "Liszt". When composing "La Notte", Liszt extended the piece "Ilpenseroso" by adding a middle...
Upstart, barbarian and traitor Giulio Cesare: Flow my tears L'Allegro, ilPenseroso ed il Moderato: As steals the morn upon the night Arminio: Fatto scorta...
Upon the Circumcision The Passion Arcades Comus "Lycidas" "L'Allegro" "IlPenseroso" Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Samson Agonistes Poems 1673 Antiprelatical...
follows. He appears again in the image "Milton's Dream" as illustrated for IlPenseroso. In the image, Urizen is with images of despair and is interfering with...
time nearly so effective as his minor poetry; and in the latter it was IlPenseroso — the love of meditative comfortable melancholy — that penetrated most...
and published a number of works before 1660, including L'Allegro,1631; IlPenseroso, 1634; Comus (a masque), 1638; and Lycidas, (1638). However, his major...
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plane tree. Frondi tenere e belle del mio platano amato per voi risplenda il fato. Tuoni, lampi, e procelle non v'oltraggino mai la cara pace, né giunga...
minister. During his college years, Milton produced his poems L'Allegro and IlPenseroso. After leaving Cambridge, Milton changed his mind about his future, and...
it in 1734 for a revision of his opera Il pastor fido which had first been presented in 1712. The revision of Il pastor fido with Terpsicore as the prologue...
awoken by Gabrielle alongside Crius and Hyperion. "Milton, L'Allegro and IlPenseroso Archived 2019-03-06 at the Wayback Machine" Greg West "The Golden Age:...
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