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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... physical correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm , but some of them will naturally occur in the account of man's physical constitution as thought of by the Elizabethans , which must be my next topic . Man's physical life begins ...
... physical psychology implied in the sensual appetite being beneath , or in a part of the body lower than the head , seat of the sovran Reason . Moreover , in the events leading up to the Fall Milton is scrupu- lously traditional in his ...
... physical life . There is an excellent account , to which I am indebted , of man's physical and mental con- stitution as conceived of by the Elizabethans in Lily B. NOTES 105.
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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 |