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ISBN 10: 0415752698

ISBN 13: 9780415752695

Author: Robert M. Schuler

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.

Alchemical Poetry 1575 1700 From Previously Unpublished Manuscripts 1st Table of contents:

Part One: Elizabethan Versifying Alchemists

Edward Cradock

I A Treatise Touching the Philosopher’s Stone

The Text

I A Treatise Touching the Philosopher’s Stone, Gathered out of the best authors that have written upon that arte

I Textual Notes

I Commentary

Simon Forman

II Of the Division of the Chaos

III Compositor huius Libri ad Lectorum

II Of the Division of the Chaos

II Textual Notes

II Commentary

III Compositor huius Libri ad Lectorem, 1597

III Textual Notes

III Commentary

Part Two: Three Verse Translations From Middle French by William Backhouse

Three Verse Translations from Middle French

The Verse Translations

IV The Pleasant Founteine of Knowledge

IV The Pleasant Founteine of Knowledge

IV Textual Notes

IV Commentary

Pseudo-Jean de Meun

V The Complaint of Nature against the Erronious Alchymist

VI The Alchimyst’s Answere to Nature

V The Complaint of Nature against the Erronious Alchymist

VI The Alchimyst’s Answere to Nature

V Planctus Naturæ The Complaint of Nature against the Erronzous Alchymist by John de Mehung

V Textual Notes

V Commentary

VI The Alchimpst’s Answere to Nature

VI Textual Notes

VI Commentary

Part Three: Interregnum “Epic”: Chymical Medicine and Spiritual Alchemy

III Lithochymicus

Lithochymicus

Jones’s Alchemy in “Lithochymicus”

The Text

Lithochymicus, or A Discourse of a Chymic Stone præsented to the University at Oxford by Bassett Jhones, now paraphrastically Englished

The Whole Woorke’s Emblem

To the Industrious & Worthy Authour on his Learned Treatise

VII Lithochymicus: or A Discourse of a Chymic Stone, etc.

An Index

Appendix

VII. Textual Notes

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

The Author’s Corollarie

VII. Commentary

Frontispiece (“The Whole Woorke’s Emblem”)

Verse Description of Frontispiece

To the Industrious & Worthy Authour

Preface

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

The Author’s Corollarie on his Mercurie

Part Four: Six Anonymous Verse Translations

Six Anonymous Verse Translations, ca. 1700

The Texts

VIII Epigram from

The Practice of Mary the Prophetess in the Alchemical Art

VII Epigram from The Practice of Mary the Prophetess in the Alchemical Art

VIII Textual Note

VIII. Commentary

Appendix

IX Dionysius Zacharias: The Third Part of the Work of Dionysius Zacharias, concerning the Practise of the Divine Work

IX Dionysius Zacharias

IX Textual Notes

IX Commentary

X Bernardus Trevisanus: The Fourth Part of the Book of Bernard, Count of Marchia Trevisana, of the Practise of the Philosophick Stone

X Bernardus Trevisanus

X. Textual Note

X. Commentary

XI Aristeus Pater: The Words of Father Aristeus to his Son, done out of the Scythian Character or Language into Latin Rhyme

A Note on the Text

XI Aristeus Pater

XI. Textual Notes

XI. Commentary

Michael Sendivogius

XII. The Philosophicall Ænigma

XIII. A Dialogue of the Allchymist and Sulphur

XII The Philosophicall Ænigma

XIII A Dialogue of the Allchymist and Sulphur

The Texts

XII The Philosophicall Ænigma

XII Textual Notes

XII. Commentary

XIII A Dialogue of the Allchymist and Sulphur

XII Textual Notes

Emendations

XIII Commentary

Part Five: Hermetic Mysticism and Augustan Satire

XIV Hermetick Raptures

Authorship and Date

The Publisher’s Epistle to the Reader

Learned Reader

The Author’s Epistle to the Publisher

XIV Hermetick Raptures

XIV. Textual Notes

Learned Reader

Hermetick Raptures

XIV. Commentary

Title Page

The Publisher’s Epistle to the Reader

Learned Reader

The Author’s Epistle

Hermetick Raptures

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