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 183
... catena d'Adone , VI , i , p . 58 ) where Falsirena invokes the powers of the lower world as Comus does those of Cotytto . Pluto explains to Falsirena Adonis ' attachment to Venus , whereupon Falsirena decides to disguise herself as her ...
... catena d'Adone , VI , i , p . 58 ) where Falsirena invokes the powers of the lower world as Comus does those of Cotytto . Pluto explains to Falsirena Adonis ' attachment to Venus , whereupon Falsirena decides to disguise herself as her ...
Page 185
... catena d'Adone , a section describing the orgies of Falsirena and her descent to the realms of Pluto- material included by Milton in the first entrance of Comus and in the descriptions of him by the attendant Spirit— and a further ...
... catena d'Adone , a section describing the orgies of Falsirena and her descent to the realms of Pluto- material included by Milton in the first entrance of Comus and in the descriptions of him by the attendant Spirit— and a further ...
Page 188
... catena d'Adone , but which do exist in L'Adone . There is , further , the character of the attendant Spirit in Comus , which is not in the Tronsarelli libretto , but which is paralleled in Marino's work in the role of Mercury . Moreover ...
... catena d'Adone , but which do exist in L'Adone . There is , further , the character of the attendant Spirit in Comus , which is not in the Tronsarelli libretto , but which is paralleled in Marino's work in the role of Mercury . Moreover ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
Copyright | |
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