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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... kind . In these parallels men took an often melancholy pleasure , convinced that they could learn from them lessons applicable to the ordering of their own behavior . 86 Music demonstrated more poignantly than any other art the ...
... kind . In these parallels men took an often melancholy pleasure , convinced that they could learn from them lessons applicable to the ordering of their own behavior . 86 Music demonstrated more poignantly than any other art the ...
Page 55
... kind . " The lover and the philosopher mark the next progressive steps in the struggle , until finally the soul , " resting , rapt , in the vision and possession of so lofty a loveliness , " rises above earthly cares and becomes one ...
... kind . " The lover and the philosopher mark the next progressive steps in the struggle , until finally the soul , " resting , rapt , in the vision and possession of so lofty a loveliness , " rises above earthly cares and becomes one ...
Page 86
... kind of love that he had in mind . In spite of his initial statements to the contrary in the De amore , he concluded finally , even there , that " all love begins with sight . ” In a letter to Pellegrino de Gl'Agli ( although he paid ...
... kind of love that he had in mind . In spite of his initial statements to the contrary in the De amore , he concluded finally , even there , that " all love begins with sight . ” In a letter to Pellegrino de Gl'Agli ( although he paid ...
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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