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In his autobiography, Goethe half-apologetically admits the
youthful enthusiasm he experienced for alchemical and mystical
readings: Georg von Welling's obscure Opus Mago-Cabbalisticum et
Theosophicum and the anonymously published Aurea Catena Homeri, as
well as works by Paracelsus, Basilis Valentinus and van Helmont.
Originally published in 1952, this study shows how the symbols and
concepts of alchemy played a key role in the genesis of Goethe's
later works, both scientific and literary. Author of, among other
books on German literature, Goethe: A Critical Introduction (1967)
and An Introduction to German Poetry (1965), Ronald D. Gray details
Goethe's alchemical readings, and shows how these influences were
processed and transformed into a unique blend of scientific and
poetic accounts of reality. Unprecedented in its approach, this
study will be of interest to readers of German literature, as well
as to anyone interested in the history and evolution of mysticism.
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