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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... dream , or as horror story when the dead journey to our world ) has served as a convention of the fantastic from ... dream vision and the retelling of classic myth . In the former , the disclaimer that says " it was all a dream ...
... dream vision form . In the " Little Songs for Gaia " section of Axe Handles , Snyder presents a series of untitled brief poems . In one of these ( p . 51 ) , he begins with a standard dream vision format . But then , after giving us one ...
... dream , perhaps he also only experienced the girl in a dream and has had no encounter with the genuinely supernatural . Canto VI heightens this debate between an interpretation of the events as dreams and one that ascribes it to ...
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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