The Elizabethan World PictureChatto & Windus, 1959 - 116 páginas This 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 Fortune; the Analogy between the Macrocosm and the 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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... follows . Each thing meets In mere oppugnancy . The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores And make a sop of all this solid globe . Strength should be lord to imbecility , And the rude son should strike his ...
... follows . Each thing meets In mere oppugnancy . The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores And make a sop of all this solid globe . Strength should be lord to imbecility , And the rude son should strike his ...
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... follows therefore necessarily that every element is a body and a simple - body , and such a one as hath actually in it , in the highest degree , these qualities : heat cold moisture and dryness . The elements therefore as well as being ...
... follows therefore necessarily that every element is a body and a simple - body , and such a one as hath actually in it , in the highest degree , these qualities : heat cold moisture and dryness . The elements therefore as well as being ...
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... follows . The humours through the different spirits , natural vital and animal , are for ever striving upwards , and ... follow the reverse process and consent to descend . Only so will the meeting - point be reached from above . That is ...
... follows . The humours through the different spirits , natural vital and animal , are for ever striving upwards , and ... follow the reverse process and consent to descend . Only so will the meeting - point be reached from above . That is ...
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PREFACE | 1 |
THE CORRESPONDING PLANES | 77 |
iii Macrocosm and Microcosm | 84 |
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age of Elizabeth angels animals Aristotle Arthur Lovejoy beasts beauty belief bethan body politic Boethius celestial chain chaos commonplace correspondence cosmic created creation creatures dance Davies of Hereford degree disorder divine doctrine Donne doth E. K. Chambers earth Eliza Elizabethan age Elizabethan literature eternal ether faculties fall fire four elements four humours glory God's Hakewill harmony hath heaven heavenly hierarchies highest Hooker human humours idea John Norden kind king light living lowest macrocosm man's matter medieval Middle Ages Milton mind moon mutability nature Nemesius Noble Kinsmen notion orthodox passage passion perfect planets Platonic poem poetical poetry primum mobile prince Queen Raleigh reason references resembled Romei Sebonde sense Shakespeare Sir John soul speech Spenser spheres spirits stars sublunary Theodore Spencer theological things thou thought tion Troilus and Cressida Ulysses's understanding universe unto virtue whole world picture