id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1790 L'Allegro - Wikipedia .html text/html 1423 212 72 L'Allegro (which means "the happy man" in Italian) has from its first appearance been paired with the contrasting pastoral poem, Il Penseroso ("the melancholy man"), which depicts a similar day spent in contemplation and thought. Tillyard;[11] as pastoral by Sara Watson;[12] as part of classical philosophy by Maren-Sofie Rostvig;[13] as part of Renaissance encomia by S. P. Woodhouse and Douglas Bush,[14] and as similar to Homeric hymns and Pindaric odes.[15] Stelle Revard believes that the poems follow the classical hymn model which discuss goddess that are connected to poetry and uses these females to replace Apollo completely.[3] Revard believes that Milton, in his first publication of poems, "takes care to showcase himself as a poet in these first and last selections and at the same time to build his poetic reputation along the way by skillful positioning of poems such as 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso.'"[17] Wikisource has original text related to this article: ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1790.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1790.txt