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 27
... imagined the “ undis- turbed Song of pure concent " above . " But it made compre- hensible as well all agreement , wherever it was found . Humphrey Sydenham , in a resounding sermon entitled " The Wel - Tuned Cymball , " saw in church ...
... imagined the “ undis- turbed Song of pure concent " above . " But it made compre- hensible as well all agreement , wherever it was found . Humphrey Sydenham , in a resounding sermon entitled " The Wel - Tuned Cymball , " saw in church ...
Page 117
... imagined joys of solitude in " Il Penseroso " is that of watching starry constellations with " thrice great Hermes . " The Lady in Comus , “ In stony fetters fixt , " is restored to life by the song of the river spirit , Sabrina . The ...
... imagined joys of solitude in " Il Penseroso " is that of watching starry constellations with " thrice great Hermes . " The Lady in Comus , “ In stony fetters fixt , " is restored to life by the song of the river spirit , Sabrina . The ...
Page 123
... imagined to be a part of cosmic spirit . As in the poetry of Lapo Gianni or of Cavalcanti in the thirteenth century , " the bodily spirits corresponded to the spirits which moved the cosmic organism , the angelic substances in the sky ...
... imagined to be a part of cosmic spirit . As in the poetry of Lapo Gianni or of Cavalcanti in the thirteenth century , " the bodily spirits corresponded to the spirits which moved the cosmic organism , the angelic substances in the sky ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
Copyright | |
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