Darke hierogliphicks
Subtitle: alchemy in English literature from Chaucer to the Restoration
By: Stanton J. Linden.
Series: Studies in the English Renaissance
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Knowledge -- Alchemy; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Alchemy in literature; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; Renaissance -- England
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 344-360) and index.