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 170
... entirely satisfactory explanation of the difference in use of musical metaphor . One suspects conscious avoidance of it . The sonnet to Henry Lawes , written some years later , gives the reader a sense of stepping into an entirely ...
... entirely satisfactory explanation of the difference in use of musical metaphor . One suspects conscious avoidance of it . The sonnet to Henry Lawes , written some years later , gives the reader a sense of stepping into an entirely ...
Page 170
... entirely satisfactory explanation of the difference in use of musical metaphor . One suspects conscious avoidance of it . The sonnet to Henry Lawes , written some years later , gives the reader a sense of stepping into an entirely ...
... entirely satisfactory explanation of the difference in use of musical metaphor . One suspects conscious avoidance of it . The sonnet to Henry Lawes , written some years later , gives the reader a sense of stepping into an entirely ...
Page 196
... entirely capable . The meticulous balance and parallelism of " L'Allegro " and " Il Penseroso " prove an already self - conscious artist . Nor would Milton , with his classical training and Renaissance heritage , have felt the need or ...
... entirely capable . The meticulous balance and parallelism of " L'Allegro " and " Il Penseroso " prove an already self - conscious artist . Nor would Milton , with his classical training and Renaissance heritage , have felt the need or ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
Copyright | |
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Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650 (Classic Reprint) Gretchen Ludke Finney No preview available - 2018 |
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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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