The Legend of the Alchemist, and Other Poems
Author | : Charles O'Connor Fenton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download The Legend of the Alchemist, and Other Poems Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Alchemist And The Other Poems PDF full book. Access full book title The Alchemist And The Other Poems.
Author | : Charles O'Connor Fenton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ben Jonson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : British drama |
ISBN | : 9780192834461 |
This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. The texts of these plays have all been newly edited for this volume, and are presented with modernized spelling. Stage directions have been added to help actors and directors reconstruct the play the way it would have been performed in the seventeenth century, and the introduction, notes, and glossary further bring to life these timeless comedies for the modern reader.
Author | : James R. Bagley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1980-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780823303182 |
Author | : Laura Gilpin |
Publisher | : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ben Jonson |
Publisher | : BoD - Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2023-05-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
First performed in 1610, The Alchemist is one of Ben Jonson’s greatest comedies. Written for the King’s Men—the acting company to which Shakespeare belonged—it was first performed in Oxford because the playhouses in London were closed due to the plague. It was an immediate success and has remained a popular staple ever since. The play centers around a con man, his female accomplice, and a roguish butler who uses his master’s house to gull a series of victims out of their money and goods. Jonson uses the play to satirize as many people as he can—pompous lords, greedy commoners, and self-righteous Anabaptists alike—as his three con artists proceed to bilk everyone who comes to their door. They don multiple roles and weave elaborate tales to exploit their victims’ greed and amass a small fortune. But it all comes to a sudden, raucous end when the master unexpectedly returns to London and all the victims gather to try and reclaim their property.
Author | : Mark Perlberg |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2009-05-15 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780807133996 |
Direct and compassionate, the poems in Mark Perlberg's collection tell us things we need to know -- about art, history, nature, love, and life. Wholly without pretension, these poems make us feel that we have discovered the truth. The poet accomplishes this partly by his delicate touch with rhyme and assonance, partly by making himself seem almost an accidental instrument of the poem, someone who just happens to be conveying it. A reader cannot help but respond with affection and gratitude. The title poem reminds us that the philosopher's stone is more likely to turn up in our backyard -- or in our imagination -- than in a laboratory. The poems of the second section address history with restraint and tenderness, while those in section three explore contemporary lives. In the final section, Perlberg writes about his family, his friends, and himself. In a poem titled "In My Next Life," the poet says -- perhaps smiling inwardly -- he will then be "amiable, mostly, but large / and formidable," and adds, with a wink, "I'll insist you be present / in my next life -- and the one after that." Warm and inclusive, Waiting for the Alchemist is a beautiful collection.
Author | : Ben Jonson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1739 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Theodore Ziolkowski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198746830 |
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 of the alchemist himself). From Dante to Ben Jonson, during the centuries when the belief in exoteric alchemy was still strong and exploited by many charlatans to deceive the gullible, writers in major works of many literatures treated alchemists with ridicule in an effort to expose their tricks. From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, as that belief weakened, the figure of the alchemist disappeared, even though Protestant poets in England and Germany were still fond of alchemical images. But when eighteenth-century science almost wholly undermined alchemy, the figure of the alchemist began to emerge again in literature--now as a humanitarian hero or as a spirit striving for sublimation. Following these esoteric romanticizations, as scholarly interest in alchemy intensified, writers were attracted to the figure of the alchemist and his quest for power. The fin-de-siecle saw a further transformation as poets saw in the alchemist a symbol for the poet per se and others, influenced by the prevailing spiritism, as a manifestation of the religious spirit. During the interwar years, as writers sought surrogates for the widespread loss of religious faith, esoteric alchemy underwent a pronounced revival, and many writers turned to the figure of the alchemist as a spiritual model or, in the case of Paracelsus in Germany, as a national figurehead. This tendency, theorized by C. G. Jung in several major studies, inspired after World War II a vast popularization of the figure in novels--historical, set in the present, or juxtaposing past and present-- in England, France, Germany, Italy, Brazil, and the United States. The inevitable result of this popularization was the trivialization of the figure in advertisements for healing and cooking or in articles about scientists and economists. In sum: the figure of the alchemist in literature provides a seismograph for major shifts in intellectual and cultural history.
Author | : Mark Perlberg |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2009-05-15 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780807133996 |
Direct and compassionate, the poems in Mark Perlberg's collection tell us things we need to know -- about art, history, nature, love, and life. Wholly without pretension, these poems make us feel that we have discovered the truth. The poet accomplishes this partly by his delicate touch with rhyme and assonance, partly by making himself seem almost an accidental instrument of the poem, someone who just happens to be conveying it. A reader cannot help but respond with affection and gratitude. The title poem reminds us that the philosopher's stone is more likely to turn up in our backyard -- or in our imagination -- than in a laboratory. The poems of the second section address history with restraint and tenderness, while those in section three explore contemporary lives. In the final section, Perlberg writes about his family, his friends, and himself. In a poem titled "In My Next Life," the poet says -- perhaps smiling inwardly -- he will then be "amiable, mostly, but large / and formidable," and adds, with a wink, "I'll insist you be present / in my next life -- and the one after that." Warm and inclusive, Waiting for the Alchemist is a beautiful collection.
Author | : James Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |