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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... Lamia's paradoxes . Keats refuses to identify either the world of Corinth and Apol- lonius or the world of Lamia as reality . On first perceiving Lamia , Lycius " from one trance was wakening / Into another ” ( Mahoney 624 ) ...
... Lamia to integrate with the Corinthian marketplace , he involves her in heavy sadomasochism , forcing her to grovel before him and to love it . This does not bode well . There is no way that we can read Lycius's sadism here as the ...
... Lamia , no longer fair , there sat a deadly white . ( Mahoney 629 ) Snakes are not white ; certainly Lamia was brilliantly colored as a snake . And Lycius's response to her pallor would have been unthinkable had she reverted to a ...
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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