The Elizabethan World Picture
by Tillyard, E. M. W
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- ISBN 10
- 0140214844
- ISBN 13
- 9780140214840
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Penguin, 1974 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 centuriesShakespeare 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 Danceideas and symbols which inspirited the minds and imaginations not only of the Elizabethans but of all men of the Renaissance.. Soft cover. Fine.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Elizabethan World Picture
- Author
- Tillyard, E. M. W
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0140214844
- ISBN 13
- 9780140214840
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- Date Published
- 1974
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