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 177
... possible , however , that Milton was not working from the masque form at all , but had another already crys- tallized scheme in mind ? It seems not too fanciful to suggest that he found that form in the Italian productions , the moti ...
... possible , however , that Milton was not working from the masque form at all , but had another already crys- tallized scheme in mind ? It seems not too fanciful to suggest that he found that form in the Italian productions , the moti ...
Page 198
... possible to find unconscious evidence of Milton's interests at this period ? If each of these three considerations leads to the same conclusion , the con- tention will then be justified that the ultimate source of " Lycidas , " which ...
... possible to find unconscious evidence of Milton's interests at this period ? If each of these three considerations leads to the same conclusion , the con- tention will then be justified that the ultimate source of " Lycidas , " which ...
Page 177
... possible , however , that Milton was not working from the masque form at all , but had another already crys- tallized scheme in mind ? It seems not too fanciful to suggest that he found that form in the Italian productions , the moti ...
... possible , however , that Milton was not working from the masque form at all , but had another already crys- tallized scheme in mind ? It seems not too fanciful to suggest that he found that form in the Italian productions , the moti ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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