Darke Hierogliphicks: Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the RestorationThe 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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Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration Stanton J. Linden. Hierogliphicks Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration STANTON J. LINDEN Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration ...
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Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration Stanton J. Linden. DARKE HIEROGLIPHICKS Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration STANTON J. LINDEN THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY Copyright © 1996 by ...
Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration Stanton J. Linden. DARKE HIEROGLIPHICKS Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration STANTON J. LINDEN THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY Copyright © 1996 by ...
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... English literature from Chaucer to the Restoration / Stanton J. Linden . p . cm . ( Studies in the English Renaissance ) Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-8131-1968-5 ( alk . paper ) 1. English literature - Early ...
... English literature from Chaucer to the Restoration / Stanton J. Linden . p . cm . ( Studies in the English Renaissance ) Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-8131-1968-5 ( alk . paper ) 1. English literature - Early ...
Contents
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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