Darke hierogliphicks : alchemy in English literature from Chaucer to the Restoration /
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| Author / Creator: | Linden, Stanton J., 1935- |
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| Imprint: | Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c1996. |
| Description: | ix, 373 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in the English Renaissance |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2507318 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. "A Clew and a Labyrinth": Backgrounds, Definitions, and Preliminaries
- 2. "concluden everemoore amys": Chaucer and the Medieval Heritage of Alchemical Satire
- 3. Posers and Impostors: Sixteenth-Century Alchemical Satire
- 4. The Reformation of Vulcan: Francis Bacon and Alchemy
- 5. "Abstract riddles of our stone": Ben Jonson and the Drama of Alchemy
- 6. "a true religious Alchimy": The Poetry of Donne and Herbert
- 7. "that great & generall refining day": Alchemy, Allegory, and Eschatology in the Seventeenth Century
- 8. "Under vailes, and Hieroglyphicall Covertures": Alchemy in the Poetry of Vaughan and Milton
- 9. "Teutonick Chimericall extravagancies": Alchemy, Poetry, and the Restoration Revolt against Enthusiasm
- 10. Cauda Pavonis.