SOURCE: “Shakespeare's Heroic Elixir: A New Context for The Phoenix and Turtle,” in Studia Neophilologica, Vol. 51, No. 2, 1979, pp. 215-23.
In the following essay, Green examines the “language of alchemy” in The Phoenix and Turtle, and contends that the “alchemical connection clarifies the mode of love in the entire poem.”
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