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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... allegory has been overworked in analyzing the literature of the period , particularly the secular romances ( 15-21 ) . And C. S. Lewis in The Allegory of Love analyzed Chrétien's romances as employing " psychological allegory , " but ...
... allegory . If we can say that the pre - modern period saw the cul- mination of its two major lines of fantastic poetry , fantasy and allegory , in the long works of Milton and Pope , then the modern period , beginning with the romantics ...
... allegory . Moreover , politics , reli- gion , art , morality , and the pursuit of truth are not and cannot be ... allegorical sense by becoming a metaphysical entropy flood- ing across the neat categories of Pope's conscious universe ...
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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