Title: Darke hierogliphicks
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: English literature, History and criticism, Renaissance, Alchemy, Knowledge, Alchemy in literature, Knowledge and learning, Occultism
Places: England
People: Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400)
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700, Middle English, 1100-1500
LC classification: PR428.A44 L56 1996