Alchemical poetry, 1575-1700 from previously unpublished manuscripts /

Alchemical poetry, 1575-1700 from previously unpublished manuscripts / [electronic resource] : edited by Robert M. Schuler. - London : Routledge, 2013. - lviii, 647 p. : ill. - Routledge library editions. Alchemy ; v. 5 .

First published in 1995 by Garland Publishing, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Elizabethan versifying alchemists -- pt. 2. Three verse translations from Middle French by William Backhouse (1644) -- pt. 3. Interregnum "epic" : chymical medicine and spiritual alchemy -- pt. 4. Six anonymous verse translations (ca. 1700) -- pt. 5. Hermetic mysticism and Augustan satire.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780203079263 (electronic bk.)


English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700.
Alchemy--Poetry.
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Translations into English.
French poetry--To 1500--Translations into English.
Didactic poetry, English.
Renaissance--England.


Electronic books.

PR1209 / .A43 2013

821/.308037