Henry Fuseli: L'Allegro

Fuseli's concept of "L'Allegro" is surprisingly similar to that of Lorenzo Costa's Comus (see image 22 below). Milton's sensuality was more covert than Shakespeare's but no less intense in these poems, which have pastoral elements akin to those in As You Like It.

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