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 107
... influence to man , whose spirits respond to it by natural sympathy . The influence of stars and planets on the physical world was rarely questioned , even though a Cassius might exclaim : The fault , dear Brutus , is not in our stars ...
... influence to man , whose spirits respond to it by natural sympathy . The influence of stars and planets on the physical world was rarely questioned , even though a Cassius might exclaim : The fault , dear Brutus , is not in our stars ...
Page 108
... influence of the sun's rays . This notion is the basis of Hamlet's advice to Polonius . Hamlet enters reading , “ For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog , being a god kissing carrion- " whereupon he breaks off , and asks , “ Have ...
... influence of the sun's rays . This notion is the basis of Hamlet's advice to Polonius . Hamlet enters reading , “ For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog , being a god kissing carrion- " whereupon he breaks off , and asks , “ Have ...
Page 137
... influence here , too , than is usually recognized . The length , coherence , and seriousness of Carew's masque may well result from Italian influence . It was Milton , however , who seems to have grasped most completely the essence of ...
... influence here , too , than is usually recognized . The length , coherence , and seriousness of Carew's masque may well result from Italian influence . It was Milton , however , who seems to have grasped most completely the essence of ...
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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