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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... possible of the relevant commonplaces have escaped me . It is unfortunate that the facts with which I have to deal , though all equally familiar to an Elizabethan , are not so to modern . A part , like the four humours , is familiar ...
... possible to ascend spiritually by looking on nature ceremonially : This I speak , supposing there were some joy in the creature , which , if there were any , thy mind might be transported and carried by the ladder or bridge of the ...
... possible to make a wrong choice through an error of judgment , it was also possible for the will to be so corrupt as to go against the evidence of the understanding . One reason why Ovid's words , video meliora proboque Deteriora sequor ...
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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 |