HERMETICISM IN THE POETRY OF KATHERINE PHILIPS.

During the Renaissance, the mythical Egyptian sage, Hermes Trismegistus, was regarded as the founder of medico-religious alchemy, who had conceived the wisdom texts, the Hermetica, which were printed in the English vernacular for the first time in 1649. This article proposes that the Hermetica and H...

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Published in:	Women's Writing Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 465 - 483
Main Author:	Chowdhury, Sajed
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Nov2016
Subjects:	Hermetism Philips, Katherine, 1631-1664 Poetry (Literary form) Literary criticism Occultism Alchemy
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