Demonstrating how the lost lexicon of fashionable late Renaissance alchemy imbued Shakespeare's bawdy Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint' with spiritual and political meanings, this text transforms our understanding of Shakespeare's art.
Demonstrating how the lost lexicon of fashionable late Renaissance alchemy imbued Shakespeare's bawdy Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint' with spiritual and political meanings, this text transforms our understanding of Shakespeare's art.
Demonstrating how the lost lexicon of fashionable late Renaissance alchemy imbued Shakespeare's bawdy Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint' with spiritual and political meanings, this text transforms our understanding of Shakespeare's art.
Shakespeare's sonnets and A Lover's Complaint constitute a rich tapestry of rhetorical play about Renaissance love in all its guises. A significant strand of this spiritual alchemy is working the 'metal' of the mind through meditation on love, memory work and intense imagination…
Demonstrating how the lost lexicon of fashionable late Renaissance alchemy imbued Shakespeare's bawdy Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint' with spiritual and political meanings, this text transforms our understanding of Shakespeare's art.
Demonstrating how the lost lexicon of fashionable late Renaissance alchemy imbued Shakespeare's bawdy Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint' with spiritual and political meanings, this text transforms our understanding of Shakespeare's art.
Unlike most other studies of alchemy and literature, which focus on alchemical imagery in poetry of specific periods or writers, this book traces the figure of the alchemist in Western literature from its first appearance in the Eighth Circle of Dante's 'Inferno' down to the pre…
Unlike most other studies of alchemy and literature, which focus on alchemical imagery in poetry of specific periods or writers, this book traces the figure of the alchemist in Western literature from its first appearance in the Eighth Circle of Dante's 'Inferno' down to the pre…
This study traces the figure of the alchemist in Western literature from its first appearance in Dante down to the present. From the beginning alchemy has had two aspects: exoteric or operative (the transmutation of baser metals into gold) and esoteric or speculative (the spirit…
