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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... ideas . Neoplatonism and occult philosophy united with Christian mysticism to con- tribute to a revivification of the idea of a universal harmony expressed through and by means of everything on earth and in the heavens . The Occult ...
... ideas . Neoplatonism and occult philosophy united with Christian mysticism to con- tribute to a revivification of the idea of a universal harmony expressed through and by means of everything on earth and in the heavens . The Occult ...
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... idea that music could separate soul from body gradually lost much of its original force ; yet it endured throughout the seventeenth century not only as a figure of speech , but also as a provocative theory which , if not always ...
... idea that music could separate soul from body gradually lost much of its original force ; yet it endured throughout the seventeenth century not only as a figure of speech , but also as a provocative theory which , if not always ...
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... idea of " spiritual " music goes Milton's interest in the " Platonic " approach to music , which defined music as primarily words , secondarily melody , an idea which is seemingly incompatible with the first , and which was never ...
... idea of " spiritual " music goes Milton's interest in the " Platonic " approach to music , which defined music as primarily words , secondarily melody , an idea which is seemingly incompatible with the first , and which was never ...
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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