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CONTENTS Chapters General Introduction Milton’s Life and Work The Age of Milton Milton’s Person and Character The Poetry of Milton The Milton Chronology Special Introduction to ‘L’Allegro’ and ‘IL Penseroso’ Date of Composition Order of Composition Sources of the Poems Whether Day or Night is the More Excellent The Signi?cance of the Titles As Companion Poems As Pictures of Two Moods of Milton’s Own Mind Each Poem Describes an Ideal Day Milton’s Attitude to Nature The Poems as Expressions of Two Sides of Milton’s Temperament Autobiographical Value of the Poems Special Introduction to L’Allegro and IL Penseroso The Renaissance Elements in the Poems Puritan Elements in the Poems The Poetry of ‘L’ Allegro’ and ‘IL Penseroso’ Special Introduction to ‘Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity’ Critical Opinions Text with Paraphrase of ‘L’Allegro’ and ‘IL Penseroso’ and ‘Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity’ Text of L’Allegro Text of IL Penseroso Text of On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity Notes Questions and Answers Bibliography