ABSTRACT
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 verse translations of works from earlier periods in the development of alchemy. Each has a textual and historical introduction and explanatory note by the Editor. Renaissance alchemy is acknowledged as an important element in the histories of early modern science and medicine. This book emphasises these poems’ expression of and shaping influence on religious, social and political values and institutions of their time too and is a useful reference work with much to offer for cultural studies and literary studies as well as science and history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|70 pages
Elizabethan Versifying Alchemists
part II|8 pages
Three Verse Translations From Middle French
part III|212 pages
Interregnum “Epic”
part IV|128 pages
Six Anonymous Verse Translations
chapter IV|6 pages
Dionysius Zacharias
chapter IV IX|11 pages
Dionysius Zacharias
chapter IV|3 pages
Bernardus Trevisanus
chapter IV X|15 pages
Bernardus Trevisanus
chapter IV|8 pages
Aristeus Pater
chapter IV XI|8 pages
Aristeus Pater
part V|100 pages
Hermetic Mysticism and Augustan Satire