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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... fact of the text is that Lamia never validates Apol- lonius's pretensions to seeing her for what she is . Well meaning the old man may be , but he is deadly . He has killed his protégé , and the young man's death is the last word in the ...
... fact sustained changes , as is ev- ident in revisions in " MS . Found in a Bottle " and " The Assig- nation . ” In “ MS . Found , " as Poe originally worded it and as it stood in several later versions , we find that the phantom ship ...
... fact , has been compared to a " mystical novel ” ( Scholem Major Trends , 157 ) , in which we read that " when the community of Israel left Egypt and went up to Mount Sinai to receive the Law , the Holy One said to her : ' Come with Me ...
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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