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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... virtue " and Milton e calls it " that last infirmity of noble mind , " the truth is not that Milton was copying Boethius but that he was giving his own version of the perpetual struggle . The conclusion then is that , though there were ...
... virtue in effect , we must acknowledge the same to hold a sovereignty and transcendent predominance as well of rule ... virtues to their species successively , shall we not acknowledge a nobility in man of greater perfection , of nobler ...
... virtue be added to virtue and their influence together concur , it should rather further and perfect the action . Certainly some overruling hand and providence stirs up these uproars and thereby intimates the reciprocal opposition , as ...
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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 |