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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... follows . Each thing meets In mere oppugnancy . The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores And make a sop of all this solid globe . Strength should be lord to imbecility , And the rude son should strike his ...
... follows therefore necessarily that every element is a body and a simple - body , and such a one as hath actually in it , in the highest degree , these qualities : heat cold moisture and dryness . The elements therefore as well as being ...
... follows . The humours through the different spirits , natural vital and animal , are for ever striving upwards , and ... follow the reverse process and consent to descend . Only so will the meeting - point be reached from above , That is ...
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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 |