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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... fairy at the foot of a tree . Some magical words she uttered , I alone could understand , For the sky grew bluer and brighter ; While there rose on either hand The cloudy walls of a palace That was built in Fairy - land . The poem ends ...
... Fairy Mythology , a very popular work at the time . Keightley was a friend and a frequent visitor to the Rossetti household . Fairy Mythology includes tales of elves , fairies , trolls , and , most importantly for Christina's poem , of ...
... fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm . She wrote it at the height of a stellar career . It sold more hardcover copies than any of her other works and was even turned into an opera by Conrad Susa ( Letters , 359 , 384 ) . Yet ...
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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