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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... century ; the general re- sponse to C. S. Lewis's long poems and the failure of Frederick Turner's The New World : An Epic Poem attest to this point . High fantasy today seems to work better when presented in shorter poems , such as ...
... century begin to dis- appear . One of the major characteristics of the twentieth century is its cultural heterodoxy ; it is an epoch in which a cacophony of contradictory systems exist . The dominant literary movement is unmistakably ...
... century poetry because this century's poems have been and continue to be marked by a formal experimentation with both form and content . In addition , pre - twentieth - century poems are already distanced from us , so it is sometimes ...
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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