The Elizabethan World PictureThis 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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... Hakewill in the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World , which maintains that nature is still bright as on creation's day . This controversy is wider known than it might be because Milton ( taking Hakewill's side ) ...
... Hakewill in the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World , which maintains that nature is still bright as on creation's day . This controversy is wider known than it might be because Milton ( taking Hakewill's side ) ...
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... Hakewill applies the same doctrine to the various heavenly bodies . When the Psalmist speaks of the sun as knowing his going down he speaks but figuratively : the Prophet thereby implying that the sun observeth his prescribed motion so ...
... Hakewill applies the same doctrine to the various heavenly bodies . When the Psalmist speaks of the sun as knowing his going down he speaks but figuratively : the Prophet thereby implying that the sun observeth his prescribed motion so ...
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... Hakewill , Goodman's opponent , accepts the Intelligences by tradition : It is the joint consent of the Platonics Peripatetics and Stoics , and of all the noted sects of philosophers who acknowledged the divine providence , with whom ...
... Hakewill , Goodman's opponent , accepts the Intelligences by tradition : It is the joint consent of the Platonics Peripatetics and Stoics , and of all the noted sects of philosophers who acknowledged the divine providence , with whom ...
Contents
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