Milton’s L'Allegro and Il Penseroso - Illustrated Etchings Edition - List of Illustrations

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A curated illustrated edition featuring Milton’s poems L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, presented through thirty delicate engraved designs credited to Myles Birket Foster. The text highlights the nuanced interplay between mirth and melancholy, contrasting Milton’s original seventeenth-century poetic debate with a later pastoral, pastoral-idyll atmosphere marked by restrained, muted regret. The document also includes publication details and a structured list of the engravings.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

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Pages80

Reading Time2 h 3 min

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List of Illustrations

L'ALLEGRO

I. Portrait of Milton (from the Picture by Samuel Cooper)

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MILTON’S L'ALLEGRO AND IL PENSEROSO The thirty designs in this now classicbook,originally published in 1855,arecharacteristic of the best work of MylesBirket Foster,one of the most versatile ofEnglish illustrators. These delicate vignettes subtly com-plement Milton's poems.The poetdebates in a vein of seventeenth-centurypoetic artifice the rival delights of mirthand melancholy,public and privatepleasures.Two hundred years laterBirket Foster removes Milton's formaldebate even furtherintoa mythicalland ofpastoral idyll with exquisite engravingssuffused with muted regret for a simplerage,unravished by the forces of social andindustrial change.ISBN:085967 L'ALLEGRO AND IL PENSEROSO MILTON'S L'ALLEGRO AND IL PENSEROSO. ILLUSTRATED WITH ETCHINGS ON STEEL, BY BIRKET FOSTER. LONDON: THE SCOLAR PRESS,39 GREAT RUSSELL STREET,W.C.r MDCcCCLXXV Reprinted by The Scolar Press,Ilkley,Yorkshirefrom the edition of 1860 printed byLONDON:THOMAS HARRILD,PRCeR5ALISBURY BQUAEE,FLEBT STBEET.and published byW.Kent &Co.(Late D.Bogue),86 Fleet Street LIST OF ILLUSTRAT10NS. L'ALLEGRO. .TnLE. # 1.Portrait of Milton (from the Picture by Samuel Cooper)- This Portrait zwas formerly in the posesion of Milton's daughter,Deborah;it then passed into the hands of Sir William Davenant,and subsequenrlyinto those of Sir oshua Reynelds. II Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings,And the night raven sings.-PAGE 】 II.Haste thee,nymph,and bring with theeJest,and youthful Jollity,Sport that wrinkled Care deridesAnd Laughter holding both his sides 2 IV.To hear the lark begin his flight,And,singing,startle the dull night,From his watch-tower in the skies. 3 V.Then to come,in spite of sorrow,And at my window bid good morrow,Through the sweet-brier or the vine,Or the twisted eglantine. 4 VI.Oft listening how the hounds and horn,Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn. 4 VII.Some time walking,not unseen, By hedgerow elms,on hillocks green. 5 VIII..While the ploughman,near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land. 5 IX.And the milkmaid singeth blythe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale.- 6 X. Russet lawns,and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray. 7 XL.Mountains,on whose barren breast,The labouring clouds do often rest;Meadows trim,with daisies pied,Shallow brooks,and rivers wide.- 7 XII.Towers and battlements it sees,Bosom'd high in tufted trees. 8 XIII.Where,perhaps,some beauty lies,The cynosure of neighbouring eyes. 8 XIV.Hard by,a cottage chimney smokesFrom between two aged oaks,Where Corydon and Thyrsis met,Are at their savoury dinner set. 9 XV.And then in haste her bower she leaves,With Thestylis to bind the sheaves. 9

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Who is credited with the illustrated engravings in this edition?

The illustrations are credited to Myles Birket Foster.

What theme contrast does the document describe between the two poems?

It contrasts mirth and melancholy, pairing public and private pleasures in a pastoral, softened form.

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A structured list of illustrations is included, beginning with L'ALLEGRO and its numbered entries.

Sep 29, 2026

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