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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... things as if they were fresh and obscure things as if they were known , it is to preserve the proportions in which I imagine the Elizabethans saw them all . In quoting I have thought of the ordinary reader's con- venience and have ...
... things , what should then remain ? Certes nothing finally , except some man would imagine eftsoons chaos . Also where there is any lack of order needs must be perpetual conflict . And in things subject to nature nothing of himself only ...
... things now do all serve ? See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the ... things else she bears the greatest sway : Which makes me loathe this state of life so tickle And love of things so ...
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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 |