Elizabethan Occult Poetics

Elizabethan Occult Poetics argues that occult tradition influenced the development of vernacular poetics during the sixteenth century and explores the ways in which discourses from the occult tradition, ranging from the scientific to the magical, were actively absorbed into both the theory and practice of English poetics. This study examines the absorption of occult discourses into the theory and practice of poetry as well as their presence in poetic content. Beginning with John Dee’s fascinatio