Alchemy and the English Literary Imagination: 1385-1633

Author / Editor
Linden, Stanton Jay.

Title
Alchemy and the English Literary Imagination: 1385-1633

Published
DAI 33.07 (1972): 3091A.

Description
Analyzes the literary treatment of alchemy from Chaucer's CYT through works by John Donne and Ben Jonson; presents CYT as the foundational text in the "long tradition of alchemical satire."

Chaucer Subjects
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion