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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... heart Ascribes the glory of his conquest got First to my God and next unto your grace . The gorgeous emblematical figure of Ceremony coming rebuke the lawless loves of Hero and Leander in Chapman 킥 ( continuation of Marlowe's poem is ...
... heart , the part of Christianity that was paramount was not the life of Christ but the orthodox scheme of the revolt of the bad angels , the creation , the temptation and fall of man , the incarnation , the atonement , and regeneration ...
... heart , a proper mixture of the humours being as necessary to bodily growth and functioning as that of the elements ... heart by heat and air from the lungs , they assume a higher quality and become vital spirits . Accompanied by a ...
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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 |