James Hillman on Alchemy: How Red the Rose

by Randolph W. Severson

With a spirited style, this brief essay enfolds James Hillman's seminal and pivotal work on alchemy into a 'poetics of quotation' from Hillman's own writing, original alchemical texts, myth, culture and history. Focused on the alchemists' "exalted ambition" and the imagery of fire in the opus. Alchemy as argosy and "fiery ambition" as a via regia to the soul of the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197349714X
• ISBN13: 9781973497141
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 27 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.1" x 8.5"