Shakespeare, Alchemy and the Creative Imagination: The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

by Margaret Healy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107637740
• ISBN13: 9781107637740
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"