Word: allegros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was less excuse for the student studying Allegro. In this work, the poet speaks of reading Ben Jonson's play Learned Sock. It came out on the exam thus: "Young Milton, out strolling in the country, saw Jonson's socks...
...weakest spot in the work is the very end. The Allegro gives every intention of finishing in a rousing climax for all four instruments; but there follow a few more measures, petering out into some harmonics for solo 'cello. This seems a bad miscalculation...
Money, Miracles. Author Graves admits to more and stronger literary quirks, prejudices, theological theories and odd bits and pieces of information than seem possible in one man. Samples: Milton's L'Allegro is not much of a poem-Robert Frost has written better; Saint Paul was dishonest with money; Jesus did not die on the Cross but may or may not have turned up in Rome in A.D. 49; bath water in Australia "goes widdershins [contrariwise] down the waste-pipe"; the "concept of the supernatural is a disease of religion," although, paradoxically, Graves-who claims to have risen...
...John Milton (1608-74) in L' Allegro foretell the events in the Senate investigation of Dave Beck and racketeering in the labor unions...
...perhaps the most vigorous debate in Christianity since Darwin. One faction, headed by French Orientalist André Dupont-Sommer (whose views were popularized in the U.S. by Amateur Scrollman Edmund Wilson), held that the Dead Sea Community more than Bethlehem might have been the cradle of Christianity. Philologist John Allegro of Britain's University of Manchester strongly implied that the scrolls put into question the uniqueness of Jesus. At the other extreme were theologians who summarily dismissed the scrolls as having no major importance to Christianity...