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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... knowledge they are able to hold . Man , even though he may in the end rival the angels in knowledge , begins in ignor- ance . What marks man from angel and beast is his capacity for learning : both his " erected wit " in perceiving ...
... knowledge and wisdom still survives , but the soul's instruments had been impaired and often shirk the labour by which knowledge is obtained . The understanding then had to sift the evidence of the senses already organised by the common ...
... knowledge . But the lovers ' souls , which together have become a single over - soul , know Of what we are compos'd and made , For th ' atomies of which we grow Are souls , whom no change can invade ; their self - knowledge , like 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 |