Contents of Cauda Pavonis

Here is a list of the articles in the US magazine Cauda Pavonis published from 1982, Dept of English, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA 99164-5020.


Abraham, Lyndy. "Arthur Dee, 1579-1651: A Life." 13, 2 (Fall 1994): 1-14.
Ambrose, Elizabeth Ann. "Cosmos, Anthropos and Theos : Dimensions of the Paracelsian Universe." 11, 1 (Spring 1992): 1-7.
Bentley, J. Scott. "Helena's Paracelsian Cure of the King: Magia Naturalis in All's Well That Ends Well" Vol. 5, 1 (Spring 1986), 1-4.
Buchelt, Lisabeth C. "Alchemical and Tarot Imagery in Yeat's Later Plays: The Resurrection and A Full Moon in March". 16,1 (Spring 1997): 1-9.
Burke, James F. "The 'Go-Between' as Hermetic Agent in Celestina." Vol. 6, 2 (Fall 1987), 1-4.
Cogdill, Sharon and John L. "Annie Horniman's Expulsion from the Golden Dawn." Vol. 9, 1 (Spring 1990), 8-12.
Cogdill, Sharon E. "Florence Farr's Sphere Group: The Secret Society within the Golden Dawn." 11, 1 (Spring 1992): 7-12.
Cunnar, Eugene R. "Alchemical Hermeneutics and Texts." 10, 1 (Spring 1991): 1-2.
Damon, S. Foster. "Some Alchemical References in English Literature." Vol. 5, 2 (Fall 1986), 1-4.
Debus, Allen G. "Afterword: Alchemy and the History of Science." 10, 1 (Spring 1991): 13-14.
Dixon, Laurinda S. "Carlos Schwabe's Spleen et Idéal A Study in 19th-Century Alchemical Revivalism." Vol. 6, 1 (Spring 1987), 5-9.
Dixon, Laurinda S. "Textual Enigma and Alchemical Iconography in Nicholas Flamel's Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures." 10, 1 (Spring 1991): 5-9.
Eckley, Grace. "The Arch-Natural Body in Joyce's Ulysaea." Vol. 6, 2 (Fall 1987), 4-5.
Erickson, Glenn W. "Neoplatonic 'High Order' in Antony and Cleopatra." 11, 2 (Fall 1992): 1-11.
Faivre, Antoine. "Thoth, Hermes, Trismegistus; or the Ancient Faces of Mercury." 12, 1&2 (Spring & Fall 1993): 1-6.
Gibbons, Thomas. "W. B. Yeats's 'Among School Children': A Cabalistic Interpretation of the 'Great Rooted Blossomer."' Vol. 5, 2 (Fall 1986), 8.
Gibbons, Tom. "Hermetic Vision and 'Vanitas' Motifs in Early Cubist Still-Lifes.' Vol. 6, 1 (Spring 1987), 9-15.
Gilbert, R. A. "The Quest of the Golden Dawn: A Cautionary Tale." Vol. 8, 1 (Spring 1989), 4-7.
Gooddie, Sheila. "Annie Horniman and the Golden Dawn." Vol. 9, 1 (Spring 1990), 4-8.
Gottlieb, Jean S. "Hermetic, Alchemical, and Rosicrucian Works at the Newberry Library of Chicago." Vol. 3, 2 (Fall 1984), 3.
Gray, Natasha. "Constance Wilde: A Modest Mystic." Vol. 9, 1 (Spring 1990), 1-4.
Hamilton, Gertrude R. "Thomas Vaughan and the Divine Art of Alchemy." Vol. 4, 2 (Fall 1985), 1-3.
Heisler, Ron. "Precursors of the Golden Dawn." Vol. 8, 1 (Spring 1989), 1-4.
Karpenko, Vladimir. "Bohemian Nobility and Alchemy in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century: Wilhelm of Rosenberg and Two Alchemists." 15,2 (Fall 1996): 14-18.
Kobiernicki, Leszek, ed., "The Method and Materials ... Composing the Sophick Mercury" [text]. Vol. 3, 2 (Fall 1984), 1-2.
Kristof, Ildiko. "Elements of Demonology in Hungarian Calvinist Literature Printed in Debrecen in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries." 16,2 (Fall 1997): 9-15.
Kuntz, Marion Leathers. "Alchemy and the Restitution of Nature in the Thought of Guillaume Postel." 17, 1&2 (Spring & Fall 1998): 19-23.
Lima, Robert. "The Way of Hermes Trismegistus in Valle-Inclan's The Lamp of Marvels." 16,1 (Spring 1997): 9-15.
Linden, Stanton J. "Roger Bacon in the Age of Francis The Mirror of Alchimy and the Mirror of Nature." 10, 1 (Spring 1991): 10-13.
McKnight, Stephen A. "Beyond the Pillars of Hercules: Consideration of a Baconian Theme." 17, 1&2 (Spring & Fall 1998): 13-18.
Moffitt, John F. "Fin-de-Siécle Parisian Hermeticism: Hermetic and Alchemical Publications in the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève." 14, 2 (Fall 1995): 10-15.
Moffitt, John F. "An Emblematic Alchemical Source for Duchamp's Large Glass: La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même (1915-23)" Vol. 2, 2 (Fall 1983),1-4.
Moffitt, John F. "Hermeticism in Modern Art: An Introduction." Vol. 6, 1 (Spring 1987), 1-5.
Moffitt, John F. "Marchel Duchamp's Etant donnes: How Walter Arensberg Explained Its Alchemical Iconography." 15,2 (Fall 1996): 1-13.
Mulryan, John and Steven Brown. "Natale Conti and the Alchemists: The Wedding of Myth and Science in the Renaissance." Vol. 9, 2 (Fall 1990), 1-3.
O'Brien, Gordon W. "Milton, Hermes, and the Rhetoric of Mental Flight." Vol. 7, 1 (Spring 1988), 1-8.
Podgurski, Robert. "Magical Forces and Historiographic Speculation in Gustav Meyrink's The Angel of the West Window." 13, 2 (Fall 1994): 18-20.
Podgurski, Robert. "The Fritz Sage Darrow Archive: The Helmonts in Case Western Reserve University's Special Collections." 14, 1 (Spring 1995): 21-22.
Prinke, Rafal T. "Some Polish Books on Alchemy and Hermetism." Vol. 4, 2 (Fall 1985), 9.
Reilly, Terry. "Alchemy, Chemistry, and Literary Form in Goethe's Elective Affinities." 16,2 (Fall 1997): 1-9.
Roberts, Marie. "The English Rosicrucian Novel." Vol. 8, 1 (Spring 1989), 7-11.
Robillard, Douglas Jr. "The Alchemist of The Alexandria Quartet.» Vol. 8, 2 (Fall 1989), 7-9.
Rouland, Roger W. "Alchemical Transmutation in Spenser's 'Fowre Hymnes'." 17, 1&2 (Spring & Fall 1998): 1-8.
Schleiner, Louise. "Elizabeth Weston, Alchemist's Step-Daughter and Published Poet." 10, 2 (Fall 1991): 8-16.
Schleiner, Winfried. "Recent Huntington Library Acquisitions of Books on Alchemy." 12, 1 & 2 (Spring & Fall 1993): 8-11.
Schroeder, John. "Dr. Bacstrom and the Tabula Smaragdina." Vol. 3, 1 (Spring 1984), 1-2.
Smith, Evans Lansing. "Alchemy in Modernism." 13, 1 (Spring 1994): 11-18.
Smith, Evans Lansing. "The Hermetic Tradition in James Merril's The Changing Light at Sandover". 15,1 (Spring 1996): 7-12.
Stoudt, Debra L. " 'Probatum est per me': The Heidelberg Electors as Practitioners and Patrons of the Medical and Magical Arts." 14, 1 (Spring 1995): 12-18.
Szônyi, Gyôrgy E. "Hermetic Books in Sixteenth-Century Hungary." Vol. 4, 1 (Spring 1985), 1-3.
Szônyi, Gyôrgy E. "Traditions of Magic: From Faustus to Dee at European Universities and Courts." 10, 2 (Fall 1991): 1-8.
Szulakowska, Urszula. "Alchemy and the Avant-Garde: Some Contemporary Australian Artists." Vol. 7, 2 (Fall 1988), 1-9.
Szulakowska, Urszula. "Geometry and Optics in Renaissance Alchemical Illustration: John Dee, Robert Fludd and Michael Maier." 14, 1 (Spring 1995): 1-12.
Vondung, Klaus. "Mysical and Scientific World Views: An Interdisciplinary Symposium." 12, 1 & 2 (Spring & Fall 1993): 12-13.
Walton, Michael T. and Phyllis J. Walton. "Being Up Front: The Frontispiece and the 'Prisca' Tradition." 17, 1&2 (Spring & Fall 1998): 8-13.
Walton, Michael T. and Phyllis J. Walton. "Witches, Jews, and Spagyrists: Blood Remedies and Blood Transfusion in the Sixteenth Century." 15,1 (Spring 1996): 12-15.
Wilde, Dana. "Arthur Rimbaud and the Mystic Way." 14, 2 (Fall 1995): 1-10.
Willard, Thomas and Eric Wan-hsiang Wang. "Chang Chi's Poems on Taoist Alchemy." 15,1 (Spring 1996): 1-6.
Willard, Thomas S. "Editing the Vaughans: An Interview with Alan Rudrum." Vol. 4, 2 (Fall 1985), 3-5.
Willard, Thomas S. "In Marvell's Alchemical Garden with Northrop Frye." 12, 1 & 2 (Spring & Fall 1993): 6-8.
Willard, Thomas S. "The Real History of the Rosicrucians?" Vol. 3, 2 (Fall 1984), 3.
Willard, Thomas S. "Two Early References to 'Spiritual Chemists.' " Vol. 3, 1 (Spring 1984), 3-4.
Willard, Thomas. "From Witch Trial to New Science: The 'Concealed Author' of the Hermetic Arcanum." 10, 1 (Spring 1991): 2-5.
Williams, Carolyn D. "Chymical Conjunctions: Newton's Alchemical Applications of Sexual Symbolism." 13, 1 (Spring 1994): 1-11.
Woodman, Leonora. "D. H. Lawrence and the Hermetic Tradition." Vol. 8, 2 (Fall 1989), 1-6.
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