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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... described a " mystic trance " in which the soul might be lifted to one - ness with the Supreme . ' St. Thomas Aquinas described the abstraction from sense attained by contemplation of God : " Therefore the mind that sees the divine ...
... described a " mystic trance " in which the soul might be lifted to one - ness with the Supreme . ' St. Thomas Aquinas described the abstraction from sense attained by contemplation of God : " Therefore the mind that sees the divine ...
Page 54
... described gradual ascent through contemplation of earthly beauty - a theory of which Macrobius was obviously aware . In the Phaedrus , Plato described the process by which the soul , recollecting those things that it " once beheld ...
... described gradual ascent through contemplation of earthly beauty - a theory of which Macrobius was obviously aware . In the Phaedrus , Plato described the process by which the soul , recollecting those things that it " once beheld ...
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... described it , for a kiss , too , gave both life and death as soul left one body to enter another . Thomas Stanley , in two poems written to " Celia Singing , " described the stealing away of the listener's soul by harmony , the ...
... described it , for a kiss , too , gave both life and death as soul left one body to enter another . Thomas Stanley , in two poems written to " Celia Singing , " described the stealing away of the listener's soul by harmony , the ...
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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