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 80
... human experience , it was impossible not to think of eternal love and music as resembling their earthly counterparts of human love and the music that may be heard , which are two very different and distinct phenomena . Since human love ...
... human experience , it was impossible not to think of eternal love and music as resembling their earthly counterparts of human love and the music that may be heard , which are two very different and distinct phenomena . Since human love ...
Page 123
... human spirit from divine , for the notion that world spirit was shared by man had wide acceptance . This association the love poet , especially , could not ignore . The Neoplatonic lover , like all lovers of earlier centuries who made a ...
... human spirit from divine , for the notion that world spirit was shared by man had wide acceptance . This association the love poet , especially , could not ignore . The Neoplatonic lover , like all lovers of earlier centuries who made a ...
Page 164
... human mould " can hear : Such sweet compulsion doth in musick ly , To lull the daughters of Necessity , And keep unsteddy Nature to her law , And the low world in measur'd motion draw After the heavenly tune , which none can hear Of human ...
... human mould " can hear : Such sweet compulsion doth in musick ly , To lull the daughters of Necessity , And keep unsteddy Nature to her law , And the low world in measur'd motion draw After the heavenly tune , which none can hear Of human ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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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