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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... served by the honour'd most . And , which is more , the very heav'nly host Doth serve the basest creature void of sense Yet over - rules them in each clime and coast . So one to other have such reference As they in union have their ...
... serve to wicked men , to serve his wicked foe . How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want ; How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies like flying pursuivant Against foul fiends ...
... served not quite the same parts of the mind . The Middle Ages used them more coolly and intellectually , rather as if ... serve as a fixed pattern before which the fierce variety of real life could be transacted and to which it could be ...
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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 |