"Making the Quadrangle Round": Alchemy's Protean forms in Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint

A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 405-425

  Healy, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alchemy; Sketchbooks; Sonnets; Survey; Symbols

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890644238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470997017.ch25     Document Type: Chapter

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