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. Image Subject: PaintingsArtist: Henry FuseliRelated Works: L'AllegroEarly PoemsPermissions: Courtesy of the Yorck Project, under GNU Free Document License Log in to post comments