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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... Eternal himself doth work . " By a masterly ambiguity he avoids the great traditional dispute whether a thing is right because God wills it , or God wills it because it is right . God created his own law both because he willed it and ...
... eternal , the sublunary regions subject to decay : on the medieval principle that , in Donne's words , whatever dies was not mixed equally . Another difference was that , while below the moon the air was thick and dirty , above , it was ...
... eternal realms of the planets . In this region meteors and other transient fires were generated . These , as transient , could not come from the eternal region of the stars . But though the elements were arranged in this hierarchy , in ...
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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 |