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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... creating the Lu- cifer of Paradise Lost and foreshadowing the melancholoy and gloom of the graveyard poets in " Il ... create a gothic mood thus rendering all the events fantastic . Examples are numerous , but three will suffice . In ...
... created worlds in the symbolic , the surreal , or the absurd . It is more than anything else the nature of the ... create the ambience of fear or evil or mys- tery . They do this through highly connotative words ; evocative images ...
... creates an image of a future world , in which the shadowed remains of the victims of a nuclear holocaust have been outlined , painted , even clothed by the child- artists of a future era , creating " instantaneous terror upon dis- play ...
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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