TY - BOOK ID - 77904997 TI - Darke hierogliphicks PY - 2008 SN - 0813150175 9780813150178 9780813119687 9780813192123 0813133408 PB - Lexington, Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - Renaissance KW - English literature KW - Alchemy in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey, KW - Chaucer, Jeffrey, KW - Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, KW - Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, KW - Choser, Dzheffri, KW - Choser, Zheoffreĭ, KW - Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, KW - Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, KW - Knowledge KW - Alchemy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77904997 AB - The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern authors has been overlooked. Stanton Linden now provides the first comprehensive examination of this influence on English literature from the late Middle Ages through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing extensively on alchemical allusions as well as on the practical and theoretical background of the art and its pictorial tradition, Linden demonstrates the pervasiveness of interest in alchemy during this three-hundred-year period. Most writers -- including Langland, Gower, Barclay, Eramu ER -