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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... critics still try to gloss over the fantasy , horror , and re- telling of myth in her poetry , either through defining the fantasy poems as the relating of " dreams , " as containing " surrealist " images , or as presenting extended ...
... critics , such as W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley , were adamant in insisting that critics must focus on a poem qua poem rather than on a poem as a reflection of something external to itself . Literature was not to be treated as ...
... critics of poems show how poetic form and context affect the sentences they include and the non - verbal world that the sentences imply ? These have always been the major questions poets and critics wrestle with ; they remain so today ...
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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