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 202
... lines which are both a com- ment on the controversial section just finished and a reasser- tion of the pastoral scene . There follow a fourth and fifth line which definitely focus attention on a new subject : O Fountain Arethuse , and ...
... lines which are both a com- ment on the controversial section just finished and a reasser- tion of the pastoral scene . There follow a fourth and fifth line which definitely focus attention on a new subject : O Fountain Arethuse , and ...
Page 226
... lines long , than choral speeches one line long . Indeed , there are relatively few Greek plays which have not more ... lines or single lines . Most of the speeches are between two and eight lines . They differ from those in Samson ...
... lines long , than choral speeches one line long . Indeed , there are relatively few Greek plays which have not more ... lines or single lines . Most of the speeches are between two and eight lines . They differ from those in Samson ...
Page 265
... line 84 of the Pericles passage , but the latter seems to me ( as to many editors ) better suited to the context . 48. Milton , " Il Penseroso , " lines 85-88 ; Comus , lines 817 ff . , 554-561 . 49. John Donne , " The First Anniversary , " ...
... line 84 of the Pericles passage , but the latter seems to me ( as to many editors ) better suited to the context . 48. Milton , " Il Penseroso , " lines 85-88 ; Comus , lines 817 ff . , 554-561 . 49. John Donne , " The First Anniversary , " ...
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A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
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