The Poetic Fantastic: Studies in an Evolving GenrePatrick Dennis Murphy, Vernon Hyles Bloomsbury Academic, 1989 M11 20 - 201 pages A groundbreaking contribution to the critical literature, this volume represents the most extensive study of the fantastic in poetry published to date. Designed to serve both as an introduction to and a historical overview of fantastic poetry in the Anglo-American tradition, the authors closely analyze specific periods and poems in order to illuminate more clearly the relationships among fantasty, the fantastic, science fiction, and poetry. The scope of the study is unusually broad and encompasses material from Spenser through the work of a wide range of contemporary American and British poets. |
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... demon - light " around his throne . Demons are never positive creatures in the Poesque imagination , witness him of the hypnotic powers that engender despair for a mere mortal in the eerie " Silence - A Fable . " Tamerlane's demon light ...
... demon in my view- . " These lines ought not be cursorily dismissed . They may of course suggest common cloud formations as have amused us all at one time or another , and indeed they may refer in that context to the " view . " We are ...
... demons were likely to threaten . Poe's conception of demons and the demonic in fact sustained changes , as is ev- ident in revisions in " MS . Found in a Bottle " and " The Assig- nation . ” In “ MS . Found , " as Poe originally worded ...
Contents
The Poetry of the Fantastic Vernon Hyles | 1 |
Poetry and the PreFantastic Peter Malekin | 11 |
Lamia as Muse Martha Nochimson | 29 |
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