Alchemical Poetry, 1575-1700

Robert M. Schuler

Introduction. Bibliography Part 1: Elizabethan Versifying Alchemists 1. Edward Cradock – A Treatise Touching the Philosopher’s Stone (ca. 1575) 2. Simon Forman - Of the Division of the Chaos (ca. 1595) 3. Simon Forman – Compositor ad Lectorum (1597) Part 2: Three Verse Translations from Middle French by William Backhouse (1644) 4. Jean de La Fontaine – The Pleasant Founteine of Knowledge (1413) 5. The Complaint of Nature Against the Erronious Alchymist (ca. 1500) 6. The Alchymist’s Answere to Nature (ca. 1500) Part 3: Interregnum ‘Epic’: Chymical Medicine and Spiritual Alchemy 7. Bassett Jones – Lithochymicus (ca. 1650) Part 4: Six Anonymous Verse Translations (ca. 1700) 8. Mary the Prophetess – Epigram from her Practica 9. Dionysius Zacharias – The Practice of the Divine Work (1567) 10. Bernardus Trevisanus - The Practise of the Philosophick Stone (15th Century?) 11. Aristeus Pater – The Words of the Father Aristeus to his Son (ca. 1600) 12. Michael Sendivogius – The Philosophicall Ænigma 13. Michael Sendivogius - A Dialogue of the Allchymist and Sulphur (ca. 1610) Part 5: Hermetic Mysticism and Augustan Satire 14. "Torrescissa" - Hermetick Raptures (ca. 1700)