Darke Hierogliphicks: Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the RestorationUniversity Press of Kentucky, 11.07.2014 г. - 384 страници 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, Eramus, Sidney, Greene, Lyly, and Shakespeare—were familiar with alchemy, and references to it appear in a wide range of genres. Yet the purposes it served in literature from Chaucer through Jonson were narrowly satirical. In literature of the seventeenth century, especially in the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton, the functions of alchemy changed. Focusing on Bacon, Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton—in addition to Jonson and Butler—Linden demonstrates the emergence of new attitudes and innovative themes, motifs, images, and ideas. The use of alchemy to suggest spiritual growth and change, purification, regeneration, and millenarian ideas reflected important new emphases in alchemical, medical, and occultist writing. This new tradition did not continue, however, and Butler's return to satire was contextualized in the antagonism of the Royal Society and religious Latitudinarians to philosophical enthusiasm and the occult. Butler, like Shadwell and Swift, expanded the range of satirical victims to include experimental scientists as well as occult charlatans. The literary uses of alchemy thus reveal the changing intellectual milieus of three centuries. |
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... Milton “Teutonick Chimericall extravagancies”: Alchemy, Poetry, and the Restoration Revolt against Enthusiasm Cauda Pavonis Notes Bibliography Index vii 37 62 104 118 154 193 224 260 294 294 344 361 This page intentionally left blank ...
... Milton, and, in the ninth chapter, given special attention to works by Samuel Butler. The reasons for this seventeenth-century emphasis are complexly interesting and sometimes yield surprises. For example, Bacon's central position in ...
... Milton than a continuation of the tradition that was begun by Chaucer and persisted almost without interruption through Jonson. Donne and Herbert represent an important turning point in the course of alchemy's literary influence. This ...
... appears frequently in English and Continental treatises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and finds occasional resonance in the poetry of Henry Vaughan and Milton.” Vital to this concept is the perceived 34 Darke Hierogliphicks.
... Milton.” Vital to this concept is the perceived analogy between Christ and the philosopher's stone, both notable for their regenerative potency and ability to “cleanse” and “heal” imperfect matter, whether human or metallic. Around this ...
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Francis Bacon and Alchemy | 104 |
Ben Jonson and the Drama of Alchemy | 118 |
The Poetry of Donne and Herbert | 154 |
Alchemy Allegory and Eschatology in the Seventeenth Century | 193 |
Alchemy in the Poetry of Vaughan and Milton | 224 |
Alchemy Poetry and the Restoration Revolt against Enthusiasm | 260 |
10 Cauda Pavonis | 294 |
Notes | 298 |
Bibliography | 344 |
Index | 361 |
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