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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... kind . So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk , from thence the leaves More aerie , last the bright consummate floure Spirits odorous breathes : flours and thir fruit Mans nourishment , by gradual scale sublim'd To vital ...
... kind are cozeners , such as belong to magicians and witches ; their prince is Satan . The sixth are those aerial devils that corrupt the air and cause plagues thunders fires etc. , spoken of in the Apocalypse , and Paul to the Ephesians ...
... kind of beast is principally inclined to one sensuality more than to another , so man transformeth himself into that beast to whose sensuality he principally declines . This did the ancient wise men shadow forth by their fables of ...
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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 |