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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... pieces of elementary lore which I have not found assembled elsewhere . This book may actually be a convenient factual ... piece of Shakespeare or Milton used simultaneously to state a doctrine and to exemplify the use poetry can make of ...
... piece of instruction Raphael gives Adam on his visit to Paradise ; to which Adam gratefully replies : Well hast thou taught the way that might direct Our knowledge , and the scale of Nature set From center to circumference , whereon In ...
... piece of Platonising , beautiful but irresponsible , is found in Spenser , in his Hymn of Heavenly Beauty . Here the spheres of the physical universe are not regulated by the differ- ent orders of angels on the medieval scheme but ...
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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 |