CR Episode 73: Milton’s L’Allegro and Il Penseroso

John Milton
John Milton

Download Link: Released 2021.04.05

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.