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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. It was presented as a companion piece to L''Allegro, a vision of poetic mirth. The speaker of this reflective ode dispels "vain deluding Joys" from his mind in a ten-line prelude, before invoking "divinest Melancholy" to inspire his future verses. 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.

"e;Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?"e; John Milton, Paradise Lost Paradise Lost (1674) by John Milton renders the biblical story of the temptation of Adam and Eve by Satan, and the fall of man thereby, causing their expulsion from the garden of Eden. Regarded the first epic in the English language, this work gives insights into the thoughts of its characters, primarily Satan.

Milton composed Paradise Regained at his cottage in Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire. Paradise Regained is four books long and comprises 2,065 lines; in contrast, Paradise Lost is twelve books long and comprises 10,565 lines. As such, Barbara K. Lewalski has labelled the work a "brief epic".