Dr Rachel White is a Career Development Fellow in Early Modern Literature in the Department of English Studies at Durham University.

'Rachel White’s excellent new book shows how major English Renaissance authors such as George Chapman, Fulke Greville, and Edmund Spenser were acutely aware that the occult was not considered a special category of strangeness – how alchemy is seen today – but was part of on-going mainstream conversations about the nature of knowledge. Alive to poetic nuances and acute in its readings, Elizabethan Occult Poetics is not only a major work of literary criticism and history, but one that is extremely enjoyable to read.' - Andrew Hadfield, Professor of English, University of Sussex

• Introduction 1. ‘Outside the confines of the language’: John Dee’s Occult Poetics 2. ‘Words set in delightful proportion’: Measuring Occult Poetics 3. 'To pass into England’: Giordano Bruno’s and Fulke Greville’s Transcultural Occult Poetics 4. 'So cunningly to optick reason wrought’: George Chapman’s Optical Occult Poetics 5. ‘Loadstone to Hearts, and Loadstarre to all Eyes’: Elizabeth and Occult Poetics

Dr Rachel White is a Career Development Fellow in Early Modern Literature in the Department of English Studies at Durham University.

'Rachel White’s excellent new book shows how major English Renaissance authors such as George Chapman, Fulke Greville, and Edmund Spenser were acutely aware that the occult was not considered a special category of strangeness – how alchemy is seen today – but was part of on-going mainstream conversations about the nature of knowledge. Alive to poetic nuances and acute in its readings, Elizabethan Occult Poetics is not only a major work of literary criticism and history, but one that is extremely enjoyable to read.' - Andrew Hadfield, Professor of English, University of Sussex

• Introduction 1. ‘Outside the confines of the language’: John Dee’s Occult Poetics 2. ‘Words set in delightful proportion’: Measuring Occult Poetics 3. 'To pass into England’: Giordano Bruno’s and Fulke Greville’s Transcultural Occult Poetics 4. 'So cunningly to optick reason wrought’: George Chapman’s Optical Occult Poetics 5. ‘Loadstone to Hearts, and Loadstarre to all Eyes’: Elizabeth and Occult Poetics

Dr Rachel White is a Career Development Fellow in Early Modern Literature in the Department of English Studies at Durham University.

'Rachel White’s excellent new book shows how major English Renaissance authors such as George Chapman, Fulke Greville, and Edmund Spenser were acutely aware that the occult was not considered a special category of strangeness – how alchemy is seen today – but was part of on-going mainstream conversations about the nature of knowledge. Alive to poetic nuances and acute in its readings, Elizabethan Occult Poetics is not only a major work of literary criticism and history, but one that is extremely enjoyable to read.' - Andrew Hadfield, Professor of English, University of Sussex

• Introduction 1. ‘Outside the confines of the language’: John Dee’s Occult Poetics 2. ‘Words set in delightful proportion’: Measuring Occult Poetics 3. 'To pass into England’: Giordano Bruno’s and Fulke Greville’s Transcultural Occult Poetics 4. 'So cunningly to optick reason wrought’: George Chapman’s Optical Occult Poetics 5. ‘Loadstone to Hearts, and Loadstarre to all Eyes’: Elizabeth and Occult Poetics