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 xi
... imagery that resulted from speculative ideas about music is rich and varied , sometimes purely metaphorical , at other times literal , again revealing half - belief . Metaphorical or not , it is more than mere poetic adornment . By ...
... imagery that resulted from speculative ideas about music is rich and varied , sometimes purely metaphorical , at other times literal , again revealing half - belief . Metaphorical or not , it is more than mere poetic adornment . By ...
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... imagery , an imagery conspicuous in the Elizabethan view of the universe . Arabic writers of the ninth and tenth centuries , in their application of cosmic musical parallels to therapeutics , helped also to literalize the association of ...
... imagery , an imagery conspicuous in the Elizabethan view of the universe . Arabic writers of the ninth and tenth centuries , in their application of cosmic musical parallels to therapeutics , helped also to literalize the association of ...
Page 161
... imagery : it is for all time . He was , early and late , both a lover of music and a Puritan — and , most of all , a poet . Out of these conflicts and this diversity , he created a uniquely beautiful imagery . The sweetness that he ...
... imagery : it is for all time . He was , early and late , both a lover of music and a Puritan — and , most of all , a poet . Out of these conflicts and this diversity , he created a uniquely beautiful imagery . The sweetness that he ...
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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