Darke Hierogliphicks: Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the RestorationUniversity Press of Kentucky - 373 pagina's The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern authors has been overlooked. Stanton Linden now provides the first comprehensive examination of this influence on English literature from the late Middle Ages through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing extensively on alchemical allusions as well as on the practical and theoretical background of the art and its pictorial tradition, Linden demonstrates the pervasiveness of interest in alchemy during this three-hundred-year period. Most writers -- including Langland, Gower, Barclay, Eramu. |
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Inhoudsopgave
Backgrounds Definitions | 6 |
Chaucer and the Medieval Heritage | 37 |
SixteenthCentury Alchemical Satire | 62 |
Francis Bacon and Alchemy | 104 |
Ben Jonson and the Drama | 118 |
The Poetry of Donne and Herbert | 154 |
Alchemy Allegory | 193 |
Alchemy in | 224 |
Alchemy Poetry | 260 |
Cauda Pavonis | 294 |
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