Titlebook: Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature; Curtis Runstedler Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), un

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,Alchemy and Labor in John Gower’s , exegesis be read as an exemplary narrative, but it also marks the beginning of alchemy being used within the . framework to challenge the ambiguities of its practice in vernacular English medieval literature. I further contend that, following R. F. Yeager’s definition of Gower’s “new .,” this alche

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,Alchemists Behaving Badly in Chaucer’s ,lchemical passage in Book IV of the .. Like Gower’s passage, Chaucer’s . suggests a need to improve communication and language, while also presenting a seemingly paradoxical assessment of alchemy. Moreover, I contend that reading the poem as an . directly challenges its ambiguous representation of a

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Merlin and the Queen of Elves: Alchemical Dialogues in the Fifteenth Century,idge MS R.14.44), and another between Morienus and Merlin (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Ashmole MS 1445). While the readings of these texts and their alchemical views initially seem ambiguous, I argue that reading these dialogues as . in fact provides clarity to the narrative, suggesting validity to th

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Conclusion,taining alchemy and its implications for the failure of language and, but it also reveals a pattern among literary narratives and exemplary frameworks in poems containing alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English literature. I have argued that these poems function as exemplary models, and

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John Lydgate and the Alchemical ,can be read as an alchemical ., as identified in the previous chapters, in which the poem addresses the problems of misunderstanding, lack of knowledge, and in this case, covetousness. This . also represents the increase in vernacular poetic production in the fifteenth century as well as the increas