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L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas
Samenvatting
John Milton’s early 17th-century collection gathers four major poetic works that examine how people move between contrasting inner states and moral trials. L’Allegro and Il Penseroso offer opposing visions of life, presenting the vibrancy of joy and the gravity of contemplation. Comus is a masque that centers on temptation and the struggle to remain virtuous, using the encounter with Comus to reflect on the strength of chastity and inner integrity. Lycidas is a pastoral elegy mourning the death of a friend, expanding the grief into reflection on faith, mortality, and spiritual hope. Across the set, Milton links human emotion with the shaping influence of fate, virtue, and the divine.
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