Blake's Milton

A friend recently went to the Blake exhibit at the Morgan Library, and happened to mention that there were several of Blake's images inspired by L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, which occasioned envy in this blogger's soul. Here are two:

Mirth

Melancholy

Annotations on a pair of poems

The Three Graces: Aglaea ("Beauty"), Euphrosyne ("Mirth"), and Thalia ("Good Cheer") by Antonio Canova.

Some notes from Dartmouth on L'Allegro and Il Penseroso:

L'Allegro

Wikipedia

Il Penseroso

Wikipedia

For Massacre at Piedmont, see Jeremiah 2.27:

27 Saying⁵⁵⁹ to a stock,⁶⁰⁸⁶ Thou⁸⁵⁹ art my father;¹ and to a stone,⁶⁸ Thou⁸⁵⁹ hast brought me forth:³²⁰⁵ for³⁵⁸⁸ they have turned⁶⁴³⁷ their back⁶²⁰³ unto⁴¹³ me, and not³⁸⁰⁸ their face:⁶⁴⁴⁰ but in the time⁶²⁵⁶ of their trouble⁷⁴⁵¹ they will say,⁵⁵⁹ Arise,⁶⁹⁶⁵ and save³⁴⁶⁷ us.

The whore of Babylon in Revelation is relevant:

Revelation 15

Revelation 16

Revelation 17

Revelation 18