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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... mind might be transported and carried by the ladder or bridge of the creatures to the love of thy creator . For as it pleased God to ordain a ceremonial law differing from the natural law , according to the wisdom of his own institution ...
... Mind , calm Region once And full of Peace , now tost and turbulent : For Understanding rul'd not , and the Will Heard not her lore , both in subjection now To sensual Appetite , who from beneath Usurping over sovran Reason claimd ...
... mind to the king in the state and the mind's low passions to the rabble . Put this way round , with the emphasis on the human passions , the correspondence links with the various allegories of the body and mind , with Spenser's picture ...
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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 |