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 167
... Richard Crashaw , whose soul " melts down in sweet desire " in the ecstasy of religious love . Milton avoided , too , any notion of complete ecstasy , for heaven is carried to the soul , not the soul to heaven : There let the pealing ...
... Richard Crashaw , whose soul " melts down in sweet desire " in the ecstasy of religious love . Milton avoided , too , any notion of complete ecstasy , for heaven is carried to the soul , not the soul to heaven : There let the pealing ...
Page 252
... Richard Crashaw , " To the Name ... of Jesus , A Hymn , ” lines 64-65 , The Poems , ed . L. C. Martin ( Oxford , 1927 ) , p . 240 ; George Herbert , " Church Musick , " The Poems of George Herbert ( London , 1958 ) , pp . 57-58 . 24 ...
... Richard Crashaw , " To the Name ... of Jesus , A Hymn , ” lines 64-65 , The Poems , ed . L. C. Martin ( Oxford , 1927 ) , p . 240 ; George Herbert , " Church Musick , " The Poems of George Herbert ( London , 1958 ) , pp . 57-58 . 24 ...
Page 256
... Richard Crashaw , " To the Name ... of Jesus , A Hymn , " lines 74 , 91 , The Poems , ed . L. C. Martin ( Oxford , 1927 ) , p . 241 ; Ben Jonson , Loves Triumph , lines 78-81 , Ben Jonson , ed . C. H. Herford , Percy and Evelyn Simpson ...
... Richard Crashaw , " To the Name ... of Jesus , A Hymn , " lines 74 , 91 , The Poems , ed . L. C. Martin ( Oxford , 1927 ) , p . 241 ; Ben Jonson , Loves Triumph , lines 78-81 , Ben Jonson , ed . C. H. Herford , Percy and Evelyn Simpson ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
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