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Alchemical Poetry, 1575-1700 : from previously unpublished manuscripts /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge library editions. Alchemy ;
v. 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; ALCHEMICAL POETRY 1575-1700: From Previously Unpublished Manuscripts; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; GENERAL INTRODUCTION; INTRODUCTION; Acknowledgments; Bibliography of Works Cited in the Commentaries; PART ONE: ELIZABETHAN VERSIFYING ALCHEMISTS; I.A Treatise Touching the Philosopher's Stone; II. Of the Division of the Chaos and III. Compositor huius Libri ad Lectorum; PART TWO: THREE VERSE TRANSLATIONS FROM MIDDLE FRENCH BY WILLIAM BACKHOUSE; IV. The Pleasant Founteine of Knowledge.
- V. The Complaint of Nature against the Erronious Alchymist and VI. The Alchimyst's Answere to NaturePART THREE: INTERREGNUM ""EPIC"": CHYMICAL MEDICINE AND SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY; VII. Lithochymicus; The Whole Woorke's Emblem; To the Industrious & Worthy Authour on his Learned Treatise; The Preface; The First Chapter; The Second Chapter; The Third Chapter; The Fowerth Chapter; The Fift Chapter; The Sixt Chapter; The Author's Corollarie; AN INDEX; [APPENDIX]; PART FOUR: SIX ANONYMOUS VERSE TRANSLATIONS; VIII. Epigram from: The Practice of Mary the Prophetess in the Alchemical Art.
- IX. Dionysius Zacharias: The Third Part of the Work of Dionysius Zacharias, concerning the Practise of the Divine WorkX. Bernardus Trevisanus: The Fourth Part of the Book of Bernard, Count of Marchia Trevisana, of the Practise of the Philosophick Stone; XI. Aristeus Pater: The Words of Father Aristeus to his Son, done out of the Scythian Character or Language into Latin Rhyme; XII. The Philosophicall Ænigma; XIII. A Dialogue of the Allchymist and Sulphur; PART FIVE: HERMETICK MYSTICISM and AUGUSTAN SATIRE; XIV. Hermetic Raptures; Index.