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Shakespeare, Alchemy and the Creative Imagination - The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint (Paperback)
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Shakespeare, Alchemy and the Creative Imagination - The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint (Paperback)
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Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint constitute a rich
tapestry of rhetorical play about Renaissance love in all its
guises. A significant strand of this is spiritual alchemy: working
the 'metal' of the mind through meditation on love, memory work and
intense imagination. Healy demonstrates how this process of
anguished soul work construed as essential to inspired poetic
making is woven into these poems, accounting for their most
enigmatic imagery and urgency of tone. The esoteric philosophy of
late Renaissance Neoplatonic alchemy, which embraced bawdy sexual
symbolism and was highly fashionable in European intellectual
circles, facilitated Shakespeare's inscription of an interior drama
of a desiring mind creating poetry. Arguing that Shakespeare's
incorporation of alchemical textures throughout his late works is
indicative of an artistic stance promoting religious toleration and
unity, this book sets out a crucial new framework for interpreting
the 1609 poems, and transforms our understanding of Shakespeare's
art."
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