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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... thought of the ordinary reader's con- venience and have modernised spelling and punctuation , except for Milton . Milton took great care over these things and hardly suffers in intelligibility from having them pre- reserved . I ...
... thought is more Than others ' laboured meditance ; your premeditating More than their actions : but , Oh Jove , your actions , Soon as they moves , as asprays do the fish , Subdue before they touch . The authors from whom I have so far ...
... thought of as an ultimate constituent part , a final result after analysis has done its work ; and the four elements ... thought of through their effects . These effects working on a common substance were thought , in co - operation with ...
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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 |