That poem contrasts with another of his works whose speaker asks to live with Mirth, L'Allegro.
In one of this man's poems, the speaker asks to go "to arched walks of twilight groves" "when the Sun begins to fling his flaring beams," and justifies Vesta's incestuous relationship with Saturn after hailing their daughter, "divinest Melancholy o'er laid with black." That poem contrasts with another of his works whose speaker asks to live with Mirth, L'Allegro. In his most famous work, a character tells the Sun "how I hate thy beams" after crying "Hail horrors, hail, infernal world," having been accosted by Beelzebub in Hell. For 10 points, name this seventeenth-century English poet of Il Penseroso who depicted Satan and Eden in Paradise Lost.
In one of this man's poems, the speaker asks to go "to arched walks of twilight groves" "when the Sun begins to fling his flaring beams," and justifies Vesta's incestuous relationship with Saturn after hailing their daughter, "divinest Melancholy o'er laid with black."
John Milton