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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... explained in terms of the musical theory and the instruments that men knew . Through actual experiment with musical strings Pythagoras or his followers discovered the theory , still accepted , of the relation of pitch to the length of ...
... explained in terms of the musical theory and the instruments that men knew . Through actual experiment with musical strings Pythagoras or his followers discovered the theory , still accepted , of the relation of pitch to the length of ...
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... explained in The Arte of English Poesie ( 1589 ) , it combined " ocular representation " with " wittie sentence or secrete conceit . " " The painter of the Renaissance employed an iconography to be interpreted by whoever wished to study ...
... explained in The Arte of English Poesie ( 1589 ) , it combined " ocular representation " with " wittie sentence or secrete conceit . " " The painter of the Renaissance employed an iconography to be interpreted by whoever wished to study ...
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... explained , it is not " suitable " to suppose that nature should make " precipitous leaps from one thing to another , from our " grossest matter " to " pure unbodied Spirits . Milton , too , in Paradise Lost , described spirit in plants ...
... explained , it is not " suitable " to suppose that nature should make " precipitous leaps from one thing to another , from our " grossest matter " to " pure unbodied Spirits . Milton , too , in Paradise Lost , described spirit in plants ...
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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