The Elizabethan world picture / E.M.W. Tillyard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tillyard, E. M. W. (Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall), 1889-1962.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Modern Library paperback ; P53.

A Modern Library paperback ; P53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Chain of being (Philosophy) in literature.

Cosmology.

Religious thought--16th century.

Religious thought.

Philosophy--England--History.

Philosophy.

Philosophy, Medieval.

English literature--Early modern.

History.

England.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Werner, Fred (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix, 116 pages ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [1959?]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Reprint of the 1943 ed. published by Chatto & Windus, London.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has signature of Fred Werner on half t.p.

OCLC:

1963444