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en-wikipedia-org-6295		Il Penseroso - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2081	268	75	Il Penseroso (The Serious Man) is a vision of poetic melancholy 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. 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 would transpire if the imagined goddess of Melancholy he invokes were his Muse. P. Woodhouse and Douglas Bush,[11] and as similar to Homeric hymns and Pindaric odes.[12] Stella 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.[2]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6295.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6295.txt