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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... elements , should link with the vital spark of a worm or an oyster . But the operations of the elements did not cease with the lowest living thing : nor were the higher living things compounded of the lower , but all were compounded of ...
... element is thought of as an ultimate constituent part , a final result after analysis has done its work ; and the four elements are regarded as the rudimentary gropings after an atomic theory instead of something quite opposed . Now ...
... elements ( for so are all the beasts , even the meanest ) but because he possesses all the faculties of the universe . For in the universe there are gods , the four elements , the dumb beasts , and the plants . Of all these man ...
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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 |