126 Pages
by
Routledge
126 Pages
by
Routledge
125 Pages
by
Routledge
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This illuminating account of 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 Tillyard in the process of its various... Read more
PREFACE, One. INTRODUCTORY, Two. ORDER, Three. SIN, Four. THE CHAIN OF BEING, Five. THE LINKS IN THE CHAIN, Six. THE CORRESPONDING PLANES, Seven. THE CORRESPONDENCES, Eight. THE COSMIC DANCE, Nine. EPILOGUE, NOTES, INDEX
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E.M.W.Tillyard
