Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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... Orpheus is again Milton's own prototype , in calling , in gift , in conflict of opposing aspects of life . There are countless references to the Orpheus story in the works of Renaissance poets and Neoplatonic philosophers . For the ...
... Orpheus is again Milton's own prototype , in calling , in gift , in conflict of opposing aspects of life . There are countless references to the Orpheus story in the works of Renaissance poets and Neoplatonic philosophers . For the ...
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... Orpheus and Lycidas - conceptions of their Christian authors - are granted that fate . As Orpheus mounts with Apollo , the chorus sings of how he will receive celestial honor amidst incense and prayers where sorrow is no more : Vanne ...
... Orpheus and Lycidas - conceptions of their Christian authors - are granted that fate . As Orpheus mounts with Apollo , the chorus sings of how he will receive celestial honor amidst incense and prayers where sorrow is no more : Vanne ...
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... Orpheus : Tu , ricca primavera , De ' fiori tesoriera , Di croco e d'amaranto , Di bianchi gigli e rose Tessi ad Orfeo il prezioso manto . ( V.844-848 ) In both works appears the not unusual conception of the creation of a new God who ...
... Orpheus : Tu , ricca primavera , De ' fiori tesoriera , Di croco e d'amaranto , Di bianchi gigli e rose Tessi ad Orfeo il prezioso manto . ( V.844-848 ) In both works appears the not unusual conception of the creation of a new God who ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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