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 194
... writing a musical drama in the Italian style , that he did have in mind in writing Comus a crystallized dramatic form , with which he must have been acquainted before his Italian journey . CHAPTER X A Musical Backround for " Lycidas " F ...
... writing a musical drama in the Italian style , that he did have in mind in writing Comus a crystallized dramatic form , with which he must have been acquainted before his Italian journey . CHAPTER X A Musical Backround for " Lycidas " F ...
Page 194
... writing a musical drama in the Italian style , that he did have in mind in writing Comus a crystallized dramatic form , with which he must have been acquainted before his Italian journey . CHAPTER X A Musical Backround for " Lycidas " F ...
... writing a musical drama in the Italian style , that he did have in mind in writing Comus a crystallized dramatic form , with which he must have been acquainted before his Italian journey . CHAPTER X A Musical Backround for " Lycidas " F ...
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... writers were not interested in writing for the public stage . Moreover , they tended to imitate Garnier's Senecan qualities , rather than the Greek , or - and this is especially true of Fulke Greville - to exaggerate the lyrical element ...
... writers were not interested in writing for the public stage . Moreover , they tended to imitate Garnier's Senecan qualities , rather than the Greek , or - and this is especially true of Fulke Greville - to exaggerate the lyrical element ...
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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