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Paul Ferguson
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Posted: Tue Nov 23rd, 2010 02:04 pm |
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http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
This website is essentially an anthology of English literature but also contains an encyclopaedia and links to many articles and essays, e.g. Kathryn Hitchcox's recently-added dissertation on 'Alchemical Discourse in the Canterbury Tales: Signs of Gnosis and Transmutation'.
Search the site for relevant terms from here:
http://www.luminarium.org/illuminate.htm
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adammclean
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Posted: Tue Nov 23rd, 2010 11:20 pm |
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There is a rather good section on Medieval Cosmology
http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/medievalcosmology.htm
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Posted: Wed Nov 24th, 2010 04:28 pm |
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| Also of interest is the fact that the poems included are tagged with influences, subject matter, etc. A search on alchemy gives 67 references, including many poems. For example, Marvell's The mower against gardens is so tagged - not a poem that has been written about from this point of view. AFAIAA.
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Posted: Wed Nov 24th, 2010 08:07 pm |
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Alan Pritchard wrote:
Also of interest is the fact that the poems included are tagged with influences, subject matter, etc. A search on alchemy gives 67 references, including many poems. For example, Marvell's The mower against gardens is so tagged - not a poem that has been written about from this point of view. AFAIAA.
I wonder if this tagging is due to cross-contamination from a reference to Lyndy Abraham's book 'Marvell and Alchemy'? I have looked through the poem and cannot see anything especially alchemical except perhaps:
'And in the cherry he does Nature vex,
'To procreate without a sex...'
which I suppose might be a reference to the androgyne.
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