The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of Shakespeare, Donne and MiltonThis brief and illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne and Milton, among many others. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Professor Tillyard in the process of its various transformations by the dynamic spirit of the Renaissance. Among his topics are: Angels; the Stars and Fortunes; the Analogy between Macrocosm and Microcosm; the Four Elements; the Four Humours; Sympathies; Correspondences; and the Cosmic Dance—ideas and symbols which inspirited the minds and imaginations not only of the Elizabethans but of all men of the Renaissance. |
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... Milton Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard. of man to the state or " body politic " was as fundamental to the Elizabethans as the belief in self - help was to the Victorians . My object then is to extract and expound the most ordinary ...
... Milton's forthright exposition of the chain of being is Raphael's first piece of instruction to Adam on his visit to Eden . ( With superb cunning Milton calls Raphael " the winged Hierarch , " to summon up in a word the associations of ...
... Milton Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard. rational in man , between instinct and understanding , between appetite and will was starkly real ; and Milton's statement of the effects of the Fall on the minds of Adam and Eve is not ...
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The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of ... Eustace M. Tillyard No preview available - 1959 |