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 41
... kind.86 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 . Music demonstrated more poignantly than any other art the ...
... kind.86 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 . Music demonstrated more poignantly than any other art the ...
Page 55
... kind of ecstatic madness inspired by love of earthly beauty , of the lover " who , when he sees beauty on earth , remembering the true beauty , feels his wings growing and longs to stretch them for an upward flight . ' Only the ...
... kind of ecstatic madness inspired by love of earthly beauty , of the lover " who , when he sees beauty on earth , remembering the true beauty , feels his wings growing and longs to stretch them for an upward flight . ' Only the ...
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 |
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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