Garden Hermits
© Kirk Johnson
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Nov 1, 2002
Milton wrote Il Penseroso and L'Allegro as a young man before his puritan tendencies became dominant. When read together, these poems express not just the complex emotions of a young Englishman, but the complexity of the human soul. They remind me of Hermann Hesse's novel Narziss und Goldmund. Any work of art which can evoke or express such a full range of emotions is bound to be interesting. I am not suggesting that we pay hermits to live in our gardens, but maybe we should have a place for melancholy pleasures in them.
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