Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650Rutgers University Press, 1962 - 292 pages The author traces the history of metaphysical ideas about music and explores the place of these in the poetry of Milton. |
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Page 76
... Neoplatonists , whose ideas the churchmen who argued for music's elevating power so completely avoided . During the Renaissance , any subject connected with Platonism was swept into the current of Neoplatonic love philosophy , in which ...
... Neoplatonists , whose ideas the churchmen who argued for music's elevating power so completely avoided . During the Renaissance , any subject connected with Platonism was swept into the current of Neoplatonic love philosophy , in which ...
Page 88
... Neoplatonic philosophy focused , as it inevitably did , on love of man for woman , rather than on an ideal love of virtue or of God or of abstract beauty , the more confused the position of music became . If music did possess beauty ...
... Neoplatonic philosophy focused , as it inevitably did , on love of man for woman , rather than on an ideal love of virtue or of God or of abstract beauty , the more confused the position of music became . If music did possess beauty ...
Page 95
... Neoplatonic purists ; they are the first step in love's sublimation , the first step in complete separation of soul from body and its final coupling with the “ nature of Aungelles . " Herein are the germs of decay that made of Neoplatonic ...
... Neoplatonic purists ; they are the first step in love's sublimation , the first step in complete separation of soul from body and its final coupling with the “ nature of Aungelles . " Herein are the germs of decay that made of Neoplatonic ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
Copyright | |
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Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650 (Classic Reprint) Gretchen Ludke Finney No preview available - 2018 |
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