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 48
... soul was described as being really three soulsrational soul residing in the head , sensitive soul in the heart , natural soul in the lower part of the body . A majority of writers , however , imagined one soul with different functions ...
... soul was described as being really three soulsrational soul residing in the head , sensitive soul in the heart , natural soul in the lower part of the body . A majority of writers , however , imagined one soul with different functions ...
Page 49
... soul and an inner rapture , in which the soul separated itself from the body by withdrawing into itself within the body , a state which might be induced by sleep or solitude . " This separation of the Soul , " writes Kristeller ...
... soul and an inner rapture , in which the soul separated itself from the body by withdrawing into itself within the body , a state which might be induced by sleep or solitude . " This separation of the Soul , " writes Kristeller ...
Page 53
... soul of man and the soul of the universe are similarly harmonious and that the harmony of music reveals to man the divine harmony in which his soul shares , a notion to which the orgiastic use of music was not entirely unrelated . For ...
... soul of man and the soul of the universe are similarly harmonious and that the harmony of music reveals to man the divine harmony in which his soul shares , a notion to which the orgiastic use of music was not entirely unrelated . For ...
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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