Background
It is uncertain when L'Allegro and Il Pensero were composed, as they do not appear in Milton's Trinity College manuscript of poetry. However, the settings found in the poem suggest that they were possibly composed shortly after Milton left Cambridge. The two poems were first published in Milton's 1645 collection of poems, The Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, published by Humphrey Moseley.
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