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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... creatures , so that there is no creature which does not differ in some respect from all other creatures and by which it is in some respect superior or inferior to all the rest . So that from the highest angel down to the lowest of his ...
... creatures having touch but not hearing memory or movement . Such are shellfish and parasites on the base of trees . Then there are animals having touch memory and movement but not hearing , for instance ants . And finally there are the ...
... creatures base , That may compassion of their evils move ? There is : else much more wretched were the case Of men than beasts . But oh th ' exceeding grace Of highest God that loves his creatures so And all his work with mercy doth ...
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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 |