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 11
... sweet pleasure.30 For Davies , the soul is most often the musician who plays on the body's instruments . Refining the image of sensuousness , of concrete literalness , almost of musical reality , he makes of it an allegory to explain ...
... sweet pleasure.30 For Davies , the soul is most often the musician who plays on the body's instruments . Refining the image of sensuousness , of concrete literalness , almost of musical reality , he makes of it an allegory to explain ...
Page 41
... sweets , " when he wrote " Vertue " : Sweet spring , full of sweet dayes and roses , A box where sweets compacted lie ; My musick shows ye have your closes , And all must die . For the dying John of Gaunt in Richard II music is not , as ...
... sweets , " when he wrote " Vertue " : Sweet spring , full of sweet dayes and roses , A box where sweets compacted lie ; My musick shows ye have your closes , And all must die . For the dying John of Gaunt in Richard II music is not , as ...
Page 95
... sweet Nectar fill the thirsty sprite . ” The “ sweet voyce ... sweetly skild withall , / In all sweet stratagems sweete Arte can shew " was the final assault on the heart , for “ sweete notes helpe perswasion . " >> 62 Chiefly , however ...
... sweet Nectar fill the thirsty sprite . ” The “ sweet voyce ... sweetly skild withall , / In all sweet stratagems sweete Arte can shew " was the final assault on the heart , for “ sweete notes helpe perswasion . " >> 62 Chiefly , however ...
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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