Donald R Dickson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5778054 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald R Dickson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald R |
| FAMILY NAME | Dickson |
| SIGNATURE | DICKSON D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7980-0307 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Works of Henry Vaughan, Vol. 1
The Works of Henry Vaughan, Vol. 2
The Works of Henry Vaughan, Vol. 3
Research tools and their pitfalls for Donne studies
This article discusses the strengths, shortcomings, and significance of some fundamental research tools for Donne studies both in print and online. Included are assessments of the commentary in the Donne Variorum, some online tools and electronic repositories, various concordances for studying linguistic patterns, bibliographies, and research guides. A cautionary word: while these short-cuts can streamline the process of gathering materials, read…
The Complexities of Biblical Typology in the Seventeenth Century
broader application offered by Earl Miner's collection of essays, Literary Uses of Typology, and Lewalski's Protestant Poetics} This renewed interest in typology, however, has led some critics to a reductive paradigm to account for the use of figurative language in the seventeenth-century devotional literature: since one image prefigured another more perfect manifestation of that image, all one had to do was simply match types with their corres- …
T. R. O’Flahertie's Copy of Donne's Letters
This paper is part of a Literature Compass panel cluster arising from the The Texas A&M John Donne Collection: A Symposium and Exhibition . Comprising an introduction by Gary Stringer and three of the papers presented at the symposium, this cluster seeks to examine the current state of Donne Studies and aims to provide a snapshot of the field. The symposium was held April 6–7, 2006. The cluster is made up of the following articles: ‘Introduction:…
The Tessera of Antilia
Thomas Vaughan and the Iatrochemical Revolution
Thomas Vaughan has often been called a 'mystical' or 'spiritual' alchemist by his readers, especially since the nineteenth-century edition of A. E. Waite, whose works helped fuel the late Victorian mania for theosophy, hermeticism, and secret societies. While Waite acknowledged that Vaughan had experimented with metals, he believed Vaughan's true subject was the union between God and the soul; thus he regarded Vaughan as one in a long line of 'sp…
The Tessera of Antilia
A study of the Protestant utopian movement that began in Germany, inspired in large measure by the writings of Johann Valentin Adreae, and came to England through the efforts of the émigré Samuel Hartlib. The first chapters examine Andreae's utopian writings, including the Rosicrucian manifestos, as part of his lifelong commitment to found a Societas Christiana, a spiritual élite that would improve religious and intellectual life. His writings sp…
The Alchemistical Wife
Thomas Henshaw and Sir Robert Paston's pursuit of the red elixir
The problems involved in using Baconian categories to understand the great instauration Bacon hoped to foster are now well known. Natural philosophers were, for Bacon, empiricists, who tested their observations of nature openly, and their foes were superstitious dogmatists, who speculated by conjuring hypotheses in secret. As Joseph Agassi has wryly remarked, ‘once a person, historian or not, accepts a division of mankind into open-minded and clo…
Johann Valentin Andreae's Utopian Brotherhoods
Howbeit we know after a time there wil now be a general reformation, both of divine and humane things, according to our desire, and the expectation of others: for it's fitting, that before the rising of the Sun, there should appear and break forth Aurora, or some clearness, or divine light in the sky; and so in the mean time some few, which shall give their names, may joyn together, thereby to increase the number and respect of our Fraternity, an…
Johannes Saubert, Johann Valentin Andreae and the Unio Christiana 1
The English Emblem Tradition. Volume 1
The Fountain of Living Waters
The "Slidynge" Yeoman
Though the Canon's Yeoman's Tale has received considerable critical attention in the past few decades, readers have been unable to agree about whether this problematic tale coheres in the way the rest do. The problem lies in the seemingly incompatible roles the Canon plays in the two parts: in Prima Pars he is a misguided scientist who is his own chief victim, and in Pars Secunda he is a cynical swindler. One solution to this problem, advanced fi…
Johann Valentin Andreae's Utopian Brotherhoods
Howbeit we know after a time there wil now be a general reformation, both of divine and humane things, according to our desire, and the expectation of others: for it's fitting, that before the rising of the Sun, there should appear and break forth Aurora, or some clearness, or divine light in the sky; and so in the mean time some few, which shall give their names, may joyn together, thereby to increase the number and respect of our Fraternity, an…
Johannes Saubert, Johann Valentin Andreae and the Unio Christiana 1
The "Slidynge" Yeoman
Though the Canon's Yeoman's Tale has received considerable critical attention in the past few decades, readers have been unable to agree about whether this problematic tale coheres in the way the rest do. The problem lies in the seemingly incompatible roles the Canon plays in the two parts: in Prima Pars he is a misguided scientist who is his own chief victim, and in Pars Secunda he is a cynical swindler. One solution to this problem, advanced fi…
The Fountain of Living Waters
The English Emblem Tradition. Volume 1
Johann Valentin Andreae's Utopian Brotherhoods
Howbeit we know after a time there wil now be a general reformation, both of divine and humane things, according to our desire, and the expectation of others: for it's fitting, that before the rising of the Sun, there should appear and break forth Aurora, or some clearness, or divine light in the sky; and so in the mean time some few, which shall give their names, may joyn together, thereby to increase the number and respect of our Fraternity, an…
Johannes Saubert, Johann Valentin Andreae and the Unio Christiana 1
Thomas Henshaw and Sir Robert Paston's pursuit of the red elixir
The problems involved in using Baconian categories to understand the great instauration Bacon hoped to foster are now well known. Natural philosophers were, for Bacon, empiricists, who tested their observations of nature openly, and their foes were superstitious dogmatists, who speculated by conjuring hypotheses in secret. As Joseph Agassi has wryly remarked, ‘once a person, historian or not, accepts a division of mankind into open-minded and clo…
The Tessera of Antilia
A study of the Protestant utopian movement that began in Germany, inspired in large measure by the writings of Johann Valentin Adreae, and came to England through the efforts of the émigré Samuel Hartlib. The first chapters examine Andreae's utopian writings, including the Rosicrucian manifestos, as part of his lifelong commitment to found a Societas Christiana, a spiritual élite that would improve religious and intellectual life. His writings sp…
The Alchemistical Wife
Thomas Vaughan and the Iatrochemical Revolution
Thomas Vaughan has often been called a 'mystical' or 'spiritual' alchemist by his readers, especially since the nineteenth-century edition of A. E. Waite, whose works helped fuel the late Victorian mania for theosophy, hermeticism, and secret societies. While Waite acknowledged that Vaughan had experimented with metals, he believed Vaughan's true subject was the union between God and the soul; thus he regarded Vaughan as one in a long line of 'sp…
The Tessera of Antilia
T. R. O’Flahertie's Copy of Donne's Letters
This paper is part of a Literature Compass panel cluster arising from the The Texas A&M John Donne Collection: A Symposium and Exhibition . Comprising an introduction by Gary Stringer and three of the papers presented at the symposium, this cluster seeks to examine the current state of Donne Studies and aims to provide a snapshot of the field. The symposium was held April 6–7, 2006. The cluster is made up of the following articles: ‘Introduction:…
The Complexities of Biblical Typology in the Seventeenth Century
broader application offered by Earl Miner's collection of essays, Literary Uses of Typology, and Lewalski's Protestant Poetics} This renewed interest in typology, however, has led some critics to a reductive paradigm to account for the use of figurative language in the seventeenth-century devotional literature: since one image prefigured another more perfect manifestation of that image, all one had to do was simply match types with their corres- …
Research tools and their pitfalls for Donne studies
This article discusses the strengths, shortcomings, and significance of some fundamental research tools for Donne studies both in print and online. Included are assessments of the commentary in the Donne Variorum, some online tools and electronic repositories, various concordances for studying linguistic patterns, bibliographies, and research guides. A cautionary word: while these short-cuts can streamline the process of gathering materials, read…
The Works of Henry Vaughan, Vol. 1
The Works of Henry Vaughan, Vol. 2
The Works of Henry Vaughan, Vol. 3
Art (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · History (9 works) · Literature (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Historical Art and Culture Studies (4 works) · Alchemy (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works)