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6. River Thames, near Horton (cp. L'Allegro)

The charming rural landscape round the village of Horton provided Milton with many rustic details for his two subjective poems, L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, which reinvoke the pastoral effects of Shakespeare's As You Like It and The Winter's Tale. This image is from UCB Shakespeare Program Collection, photographed by Velma Bourgeois Richmond.