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 56
... seventeenth - century churchmen . Even in the pre - Christian era , there had developed phil- osophies that bore germs of reaction against the concep- tion of music as an inducement to ecstasy . Cicero , in De finibus , aligned himself ...
... seventeenth - century churchmen . Even in the pre - Christian era , there had developed phil- osophies that bore germs of reaction against the concep- tion of music as an inducement to ecstasy . Cicero , in De finibus , aligned himself ...
Page 59
... seventeenth - century philosophers , is not of primary concern . There was caution on this point . Claims that music could create ecstasy were usually modified by such phrases as " for the time , " " in a manner , " " as it were , " or ...
... seventeenth - century philosophers , is not of primary concern . There was caution on this point . Claims that music could create ecstasy were usually modified by such phrases as " for the time , " " in a manner , " " as it were , " or ...
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... seventeenth - century drama , a conflict in which Milton stood with the Greeks and - he said - with the Italians ... seventeenth - century pseudo- classic tragedy . " " The strictly literary plays do , indeed , indi- cate a ...
... seventeenth - century drama , a conflict in which Milton stood with the Greeks and - he said - with the Italians ... seventeenth - century pseudo- classic tragedy . " " The strictly literary plays do , indeed , indi- cate a ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
Copyright | |
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