Darke hierogliphicks : alchemy in English literature from Chaucer to the Restoration

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Darke hierogliphicks : alchemy in English literature from Chaucer to the Restoration

Title remainder

alchemy in English literature from Chaucer to the Restoration

Statement of responsibility

Stanton J. Linden

Creator

• Linden, Stanton J., 1935-

Author

• Linden, Stanton J., 1935-

Subject

• Alchemy in literature
• Alchemy in literature
• Chaucer, Geoffrey | Knowledge | Alchemy
• Chaucer, Geoffrey | Knowledge | Occultism
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Knowledge | Alchemy
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• England
• English literature -- Early modern
• English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
• English literature -- Middle English
• English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
• English literature | Early modern, 1500-1700 | History and criticism
• English literature | History and criticism | Early modern, 1500-1700
• English literature | History and criticism | Middle English, 1100-1500
• English literature | Middle English, 1100-1500 | History and criticism
• Geschichte | 1360-1660
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Renaissance
• Renaissance -- England
• Renaissance | England
• 1100-1700
• Alchemy

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Studies in the English Renaissance

Cataloging source

E7B

Dewey number

820.9/37

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR428.A44

LC item number

.L56 2008eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Studies in the English Renaissance