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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... animals having touch memory and movement but not hearing , for instance ants . And finally there are the higher animals , horses and dogs etc. , that have all these faculties . The three classes lead up to man , who has not only ...
... animals , scarcely rise above the life of plants , because they cling to the earth without motion and possess the sense of touch alone . The upper surface of the earth is in contact with the lower surface of water ; the highest part of ...
... animal spirits . The brain rules the top of man's body , and is the seat of the rational and immortal part . The animal spirits are the executive agents of the brain through the nerves and partake both of the body and of the soul . I ...
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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 |