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 195
... poetic taste . Yet even those critics who love it most reveal some discomfort when they attempt to make its structure clear , to simplify its “ elaborate art , ” for the poem has a design that eludes defini- tion . " Lycidas " is ...
... poetic taste . Yet even those critics who love it most reveal some discomfort when they attempt to make its structure clear , to simplify its “ elaborate art , ” for the poem has a design that eludes defini- tion . " Lycidas " is ...
Page 230
... poem , La Fiera . Leonora Baroni , the famous singer to whom Milton wrote the Latin poems , was probably not present on this occasion , for Ademollo states definitely that no women were allowed to sing in the performance or even to ...
... poem , La Fiera . Leonora Baroni , the famous singer to whom Milton wrote the Latin poems , was probably not present on this occasion , for Ademollo states definitely that no women were allowed to sing in the performance or even to ...
Page 275
... poem and is here treated as a part of it . 13. It is significant , too , that Carew often found " source and model " in the lyrics of Marino , whom he possibly knew in Paris ( see introduc- tion to Thomas Carew , Poems , ed . Rhodes ...
... poem and is here treated as a part of it . 13. It is significant , too , that Carew often found " source and model " in the lyrics of Marino , whom he possibly knew in Paris ( see introduc- tion to Thomas Carew , Poems , ed . Rhodes ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
Copyright | |
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