Cures and currency in Donne’s letters to patrons
Critics have discussed how John Donne’s writing responds to alchemy and to patronage, but none has examined how he draws parallels between the two frameworks. Donne sees both as convoluted, frustrating processes that rely on falseness. Comparing his praise to alchemical coins—the quality of which wa...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2017
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48507/ |