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 198
... Milton had in mind a musical production as his source , granted that one may find in con- temporary music , available to Milton , form and structure resembling " Lycidas , " is it also possible to find unconscious evidence of Milton's ...
... Milton had in mind a musical production as his source , granted that one may find in con- temporary music , available to Milton , form and structure resembling " Lycidas , " is it also possible to find unconscious evidence of Milton's ...
Page 196
... Milton " is uneasy , sceptical , about the whole foundation of poetry as an art . " But has Milton succeeded , he asks , in this new venture , whatever it is ? " Where then is Milton the individualist , whose metrical departures would ...
... Milton " is uneasy , sceptical , about the whole foundation of poetry as an art . " But has Milton succeeded , he asks , in this new venture , whatever it is ? " Where then is Milton the individualist , whose metrical departures would ...
Page 275
... Milton & Wordsworth ( Cambridge , Eng . , 1937 ) , p . 9 . 2. See Maurice Valency , In Praise of Love ( New York , 1958 ) , pp . 130 ff . Milton's debt to the canzone is discussed by F. T. Prince , The Italian Element in Milton's Verse ...
... Milton & Wordsworth ( Cambridge , Eng . , 1937 ) , p . 9 . 2. See Maurice Valency , In Praise of Love ( New York , 1958 ) , pp . 130 ff . Milton's debt to the canzone is discussed by F. T. Prince , The Italian Element in Milton's Verse ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
Copyright | |
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