Alchemical Poetry, 1575-1700 : From Previously Unpublished Manuscripts

ISBN-13: 9780415641890 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 710 str.

Robert M. Schuler

Opis

Of interest to interdisciplinary historians, this book presents 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 verse translations of works from earlier periods in the development of alchemy.

Spis treści

Introduction. Bibliography  Part 1: Elizabethan Versifying Alchemists  1. Edward Cradock – A Treatise Touching the Philosopher’s Stone (ca. 1575)  2. Simon Forman - Of the Division of the Chaos (ca. 1595)  3. Simon Forman – Compositor ad Lectorum (1597)  Part 2: Three Verse Translations from Middle French by William Backhouse (1644)  4. Jean de La Fontaine – The Pleasant Founteine of Knowledge (1413)  5. The Complaint of Nature Against the Erronious Alchymist (ca. 1500)  6. The Alchymist’s Answere to Nature (ca. 1500)  Part 3: Interregnum ‘Epic’: Chymical Medicine and Spiritual Alchemy  7. Bassett Jones – Lithochymicus (ca. 1650)  Part 4: Six Anonymous Verse Translations (ca. 1700)  8. Mary the Prophetess – Epigram from her Practica  9. Dionysius Zacharias – The Practice of the Divine Work (1567)  10. Bernardus Trevisanus - The Practise of the Philosophick Stone (15^th Century?)  11. Aristeus Pater – The Words of the Father Aristeus to his Son (ca. 1600)  12. Michael Sendivogius – The Philosophicall Ænigma  13. Michael Sendivogius - A Dialogue of the Allchymist and Sulphur (ca. 1610)  Part 5: Hermetic Mysticism and Augustan Satire  14. "Torrescissa" - Hermetick Raptures (ca. 1700)

O autorze

Robert M. Schuler