Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Gretchen Ludke Finney. CHAPTER X A Musical Backround for Othe test of " Lycidas " all the poems of Milton , " Lycidas " has best withstood the test of centuries , the ebb and flow of criticism . It remains for many the touchstone of ...
Gretchen Ludke Finney. CHAPTER X A Musical Backround for Othe test of " Lycidas " all the poems of Milton , " Lycidas " has best withstood the test of centuries , the ebb and flow of criticism . It remains for many the touchstone of ...
Page 197
... Lycidas " is not obscured by these enigmas . Still , the questions recur . By what precedent did Milton contrive so seemingly intricate a composition ? Was he merely elaborating ingeniously on classical models , or was he , to the ...
... Lycidas " is not obscured by these enigmas . Still , the questions recur . By what precedent did Milton contrive so seemingly intricate a composition ? Was he merely elaborating ingeniously on classical models , or was he , to the ...
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... Lycidas " that it is needless to look there . The medieval music is essen- tially choral ; it is non - personal . The anthem , Service , and Mass of Milton's own day provide no sustained likeness in structure or intent . Even if one ...
... Lycidas " that it is needless to look there . The medieval music is essen- tially choral ; it is non - personal . The anthem , Service , and Mass of Milton's own day provide no sustained likeness in structure or intent . Even if one ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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