Alchemist in Literature: From Dante to the Present

by Theodore Ziolkowski

Unlike most other studies of alchemy and literature, which focus on alchemical imagery in poetry of specific periods or writers, this book traces the figure of the alchemist in Western literature from its first appearance in the Eighth Circle of Dante's Inferno down to the present. From the beginning alchemy has had two aspects: exoteric or operative (the transmutation of baser metals into gold) and esoteric or speculative (the spiritual transformation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198746830
• ISBN13: 9780198746836
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.7" x 5.8"