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 226
... Samson , and throughout the pursuant alternating of solo dialogue with choral , there is striking similarity between the two works . Samson Agonistes is more weighted with meaning , but the common source is evident . In other ways , too ...
... Samson , and throughout the pursuant alternating of solo dialogue with choral , there is striking similarity between the two works . Samson Agonistes is more weighted with meaning , but the common source is evident . In other ways , too ...
Page 231
... Samson Agonistes , because the Samson story was a favorite one for writers of oratorio from its beginnings up to the time of Handel's Samson ( 1741 ) , which is based on Milton's work . It is tempting , too , because there are static ...
... Samson Agonistes , because the Samson story was a favorite one for writers of oratorio from its beginnings up to the time of Handel's Samson ( 1741 ) , which is based on Milton's work . It is tempting , too , because there are static ...
Page 277
... Samson Agonistes has been noted by Charles Sears Baldwin , Renaissance Literary Theory and Practice ( New York , 1939 ) , p . 144 ; Baldwin writes of the former that " its literary type is still clear in the nobler Samson Agonistes of ...
... Samson Agonistes has been noted by Charles Sears Baldwin , Renaissance Literary Theory and Practice ( New York , 1939 ) , p . 144 ; Baldwin writes of the former that " its literary type is still clear in the nobler Samson Agonistes of ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650 |
| Author | Gretchen Ludke Finney |
| Publisher | Rutgers University Press, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 15 Jul 2008 |
| Length | 292 pages |
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