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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... nature's corruption he has to admit the educative force of the speculum creaturarum . The chain of being is still a means of spiritual ascent : but only in an ideal interpretation . God has a ceremonial as well as a natural law , and it ...
... Nature there follow the angels arranged in the Dionysian order . This giving a soul to nature - nature , that is , in the sense of natura naturans , the creative force , not of natura naturata , the natural creation - was a mildly ...
... nature more than nature needs , Man's life is cheap as beasts ' . And Gelli has the same idea in this dialogue between Ulysses and the mole . Ulysses . But one would be glad to have more than one has a mere necessity for . Mole . Why ...
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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 |