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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... man's nature . Some of the vital spirits are in due course carried through the arteries into the brain , where they are turned into animal spirits . The brain rules the top of man's body , and is the seat of the rational and immortal ...
... Man's understanding , though allied to the angelical , oper- ates differently . The angels understand intuitively , man by the painful use of the discursive reason . Again , the angels have perfected their understanding and are replete ...
... man with a fierceness rarely paralleled in other ages ; and that fierceness delighted in exposing all the contrarieties in man's composition . In particular by picturing man's position be- tween beast and angel with all possible ...
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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 |