L’Allegro and Il Penseroso in their relation to seventeenth-century poetry

My only reason for not describing L’Allegro and Il Penseroso as the most typically seventeenth-century of Milton’s shorter poems is that I cannot conceive how any other seventeenth-century poet could possibly have written them. What, though, may be safely asserted is that many of the most delightful characteristics of seventeenth-century poetry in general are there more perfectly exhibited than elsewhere.