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CR Episode 73: Milton’s L’Allegro and Il Penseroso
Published 5 years, 6 months ago
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Released on 5 April 2021:
The panel discusses a selection of John Milton’s shorter poems, the oft-paired ‘L’Allegro’ and ‘Il Penseroso’, and examines their use of Orpheus as a metaphor, and their different attitudes to finding communal delight and solitary pleasure in life.