John Keats and Alchemy

[Paul Ferguson]

“I have seen that Endymion. Hyperion, and The Fall of Hyperion, besides adhering to the individuation myth, can also be discussed in the context of the process of alchemy. Within these poems there are a number of significant alchemical parallels, which help us to understand their unity, which becomes manifest when it is seen that they progress according to the stages of the opus alchemicum. Alchemy is an untapped reservoir of truth about the human soul, containing seventeen centuries of study and speculation.”

The Alchemy of Art: A Study in the Evolution of the Creative Mind of John Keats
G. Brian Sullivan
University of Nebraska-Lincoln



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