John Milton Il Penseroso ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE Art by Ludwig Thiersch 1902 Print
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| Management number | 4123143 | Release Date | 2025/08/12 | List Price | $28.50 | Model Number | 4123143 | ||
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John Milton Il Penseroso ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE Art by Ludwig Thiersch
This is an illustration / print that has been taken from a book dated 1902 and is ready for framing. Measures approximately 11 x 8 1/2 inches. There is an image text summary on the attached rice paper.
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 woul
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