Abraham finds a number of clear references to alchemy in the serial version of His Natural Life, and, connecting these with biographical evidence, argues that the struggles of Rufus Dawes can be seen in alchemical terms. The alchemical process…
The past in A. D. Hope's poetry is very much a literary past. The poems show that Hope's relationship to the past and present is that of a man of m culture. He sees the past mediated through art and…