Editing Elemental (section)

==Art and entertainment==
{{Further|Alchemy in art and entertainment}}

Elementals became popular characters in Romantic literature after Paracelsus. Even by the 17th century, elemental spirits after the Paracelsian concept appeared in works by [[John Dryden]] and in the ''[[Comte de Gabalis]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dryden|first1=John|editor1-last=Nozak|editor1-first=M.E.|editor2-last=Guffey|editor2-first=M.E.|title=The Works of John Dryden,: Plays - The Tempest, Tyrannick Love, an Evening's Love|date=1970|publisher=University of California Press|pages=423–424}}</ref> [[Alexander Pope]] cited ''Comte de Gabalis'' as his source for elemental lore in his 1712 poem ''[[The Rape of the Lock]]''.
{{blockquote|text=<poem>
The Sprites of fiery Termagants in Flame
Mount up, and take a Salamander's name.
Soft yielding minds to Water glide away,
And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea.
The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome,
In search of mischief still on Earth to roam.
The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair,
And sport and flutter in the fields of Air. 
</poem>|sign=Alexander Pope|source=the Rape of the Lock, Canto 1}}
[[Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué|Fouqué's]] wildly popular 1811 novella ''[[Undine (novella)|Undine]]'' is one of the most influential literary examples. Another example is the DC Comics superhero team The Elementals, composed of the characters Gnome, Sylph, Salamander, and Undine.<ref>
{{ Cite comic | writer= E. Nelson Bridwell | penciller=Ramona Fradon | inker=Bob Smith | colorist=Gene D'Angelo | letterer=Shelly Leferman | editor=Larry Hama | story=Elementary! | title=[[Super Friends]] | volume=1 | issue=14 | date=November 1978  | publisher=[[DC Comics]] | location=[[New York, NY]] }}
</ref>

[[Algernon Blackwood|Blackwood]] introduces an elemental in the novella ''The Nemesis of Fire''. Elementals related to the four classical elements appeared in the fiction of [[Michael Moorcock]], notably his 1972 novel ''[[Elric of Melniboné (novel)|Elric of Melniboné]]'', and [[Elemental (Dungeons & Dragons)|a variant]] appeared in the 1970s ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' [[role-playing game]]. The concept has since been expanded on in numerous other [[fantasy]], [[video game|computer]] and [[trading card game]]s.