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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... fire , the highest of the elements , should link with the vital spark of a worm or an oyster . But the operations of ... fire and hence , fire being the best of the elements and heavenly fire being better than the elemental , the highest ...
... fire , which next below the sphere of the moon enclosed the globe of air that girded water and earth . It was hot and dry , rarefied , invisible to human sight , and was the fitting transition to the eternal realms of the planets . In ...
... fire extracted shines . They in like order back again repair : The grosser fire condenseth into air ; Air into water ; water , thick'ning , then Grows solid and converts to earth again . None holds his own : for nature ever joys 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 |