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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... Dymer's perceptions . But as he encourages us to question ourselves and Dymer , he also insinuates an identity between narrator , reader , and Dymer . All individual perceptions are suspect because each is not only a part of one ...
... Dymer has a clear view of " the world beneath " ( 54 ) , the reader's view still remains impaired by hesitation over the nature of the events that led to ... Dymer's destruction . Having learned the les- son C. S. Lewis's " Dymer " 75.
... Dymer with nature , but , interestingly enough , Lewis does not romantically suggest that it reunites him with the divine . Sayer argues that " Dymer knows at once that it is his duty to face and fight with this mons- ter , a lustful ...
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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