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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... melody of the universe to that of stringed instrument : " Just as an instrument of various strings when struck produces concordance , so does the universe produce harmonious melody . " 16 Clement of Alexandria was both more ...
... melody of the universe to that of stringed instrument : " Just as an instrument of various strings when struck produces concordance , so does the universe produce harmonious melody . " 16 Clement of Alexandria was both more ...
Page 66
... melody to remain , ” found themselves in an anomalous posi- tion ; they must indeed " shew some reason wherefore the one should be thought a legal ceremony and not the other . ” George Wither repeated ideas of Case and of Hooker ...
... melody to remain , ” found themselves in an anomalous posi- tion ; they must indeed " shew some reason wherefore the one should be thought a legal ceremony and not the other . ” George Wither repeated ideas of Case and of Hooker ...
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... Melody of Love ) , described an experience in which the heat of love was followed by a sensation of sweetness , and this by a " celestial melody ... heard by him with the outward as well as with the inward ear , " a harmony that was an ...
... Melody of Love ) , described an experience in which the heat of love was followed by a sensation of sweetness , and this by a " celestial melody ... heard by him with the outward as well as with the inward ear , " a harmony that was an ...
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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