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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... body , too , was compared to a musical instrument , and considerable argument ensued as to whether soul is harmony produced by the tuning up of the natural body ( as Aristoxenus was credited with saying ) or whether soul is like a ...
... body , too , was compared to a musical instrument , and considerable argument ensued as to whether soul is harmony produced by the tuning up of the natural body ( as Aristoxenus was credited with saying ) or whether soul is like a ...
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... body . A majority of writers , however , imagined one soul with different functions . Always it maintained contact with the body ( willingly or not ) by means of " spirits , " airy vapors which shared in both physical and divine ...
... body . A majority of writers , however , imagined one soul with different functions . Always it maintained contact with the body ( willingly or not ) by means of " spirits , " airy vapors which shared in both physical and divine ...
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... body by withdrawing into itself within the body , a state which might be induced by sleep or solitude . " This separa- tion of the Soul , ” writes Kristeller , " which is by no means a mere metaphor , is conceived in its highest ...
... body by withdrawing into itself within the body , a state which might be induced by sleep or solitude . " This separa- tion of the Soul , ” writes Kristeller , " which is by no means a mere metaphor , is conceived in its highest ...
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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