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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... creation from top to bottom . But first we must shed any notion that even in the Middle Ages the chain or ladder of creation was single and consistent . Some portions of it plainly could not be fitted into a single unit : for instance ...
... creation , and though their qualities have mostly been touched on already I had better summarise them here in their proper place . In the scale of creation the beasts excel in sensible capacity . In Gelli's Circe the snake , with whom ...
... creation cannot help figuring simultaneously as links in the chain and resemblances to some- thing on another grade of creation . Thus a primate in one class of creation must be an important link in the chain as being closest to the ...
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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 |
The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of ... Eustace M. Tillyard No preview available - 1959 |