Il Penseroso
Mirth is dismissed and Melancholy invoked, and the hours that follow keep to the nightingale, the moon, a lonely tower and long study of philosophy and tragedy. Day brings shade rather than sun, and age brings the cloister and the prophetic strain. The pensive half of a matched pair.
Open Il Penseroso in the archive — filters, lineage graph and full facet browsing.
Lineage
- companion to ↑ L'Allegro
Attributes
Genre
Culture / tradition
Closest analogues
- 56% · 7 shared
- 56% · 7 shared
- 56% · 6 shared
- 56% · 5 shared
- 51% · 7 shared
- 51% · 7 shared