The Elizabethan World Picture Author:Tillyard, E.M. This brief and illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan era, and later, is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - including Shakespeare, Milton & Donne. Among his topics are: Angels; the Stars & Fortune; the Anaology between Macrocosm & Microc... more »osm; the Four Elements; the Four Humours; Sympathies; Correspondences; and the Cosmic Dance. These ideas and symbols inspired the minds and imaginations of the Elizabethans, as well as all men of the Renaissance.« less