Alchemy and Verse in Late-Medieval England.
- Author / Editor
- Bentick, Eoin.
Alchemy and Verse in Late-Medieval England.
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International DAI C81.04 (2019): n.p.
- Description
- Studies the portrayals of alchemy and alchemists in fourteenth-and fifteenth-century English verse, including discussion of Chaucer's negative depiction of alchemy and its practitioners in CYPT, and John Gower's positive view in "Confessio Amantis."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations