Alchemical poetry, 1575-1700 : from previously unpublished manuscripts / edited by Robert M. Schuler.
Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines. The poems are printed in the chronological order of their composition, from Elizabethan to Augustan times, but nine of them are v...
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| Language: | English French Latin |
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London :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Series: | Routledge library editions. Alchemy.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Elizabethan versifying alchemists
- pt. 2. Three verse translations from Middle French by William Backhouse (1644)
- pt. 3. Interregnum "epic" : chymical medicine and spiritual alchemy
- pt. 4. Six anonymous verse translations (ca. 1700)
- pt. 5. Hermetic mysticism and Augustan satire.