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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... beauty . They are opposites and adversaries . " Lamia " is the fable of the defeat of Beauty by Abstract Rea- son . Because the creation of proportion through reason was often what the eighteenth century meant by Beauty , there is a ...
... beauty , wrongly condemned , because as the handmaid of Beauty she is also the way into truth . She is the poet's salvation from the solipsistic death in life promoted by the dreary logic of the mar- ketplace . Vulnerable as she is to ...
... beauty , inspired perhaps by a bust in imitation of Canova's " Helen , " or a Psyche figurine holding a night lamp , which were owned by his foster mother , as Professor Richard P. Benton has informed me . In the poem , the speaker's ...
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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