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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... heaven cannot be far from the Elizabethan conception : Now had the Almighty Father from above , From the pure Empyrean where he sits High Thron'd above all highth , bent down his eye , His own works and their works at once to view ...
... heaven all round which environeth and goeth round about the earth on all parts wholly without any default , all in like wise as the shell of an egg that environeth the white all about . And so the heaven goeth round about an air which ...
... heaven wants glory , Because your shadows do yourself benight ? All's dark unto the blind ; let them be sorry : The heavens in themselves are ever bright . Fie , fond desire , think you that love wants glory , Because your shadows do ...
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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 |