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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... hath distinguished his angels by degrees , which hath given greater and less light and beauty to heavenly bodies , which hath made differences between beasts and birds , created the eagle and the fly , the cedar and the shrub , and ...
... hath given virtues to springs and fountains , to cold earth , to plants and stones , minerals , and to the excremental parts of the basest living creatures , why should we rob the beautiful stars of their working powers ? For , seeing ...
... hath assigned kings princes with other governors under them , all in good and necessary order . The water above is kept and raineth down in due time and season . The sun moon stars rainbow thunder lightning clouds and all birds of the ...
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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 |