Milton and Music - Hardcoverby Seth Herbst (Author) Milton and Music is the first study to juxtapose John Milton's poetry on music with later musical adaptations of his work. In Part I: Milton on Music, Seth Herbst shows that writing about music galvanized Milton's intellectual development towards animist materialism, the belief that everything in the universe even the human soul is made of matter. The Milton who emerges is a forward thinking visionary who leaped past his