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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... force for most supernatural poetry , with its hypnotic , musical effects that echoed the incantatory force of magic , superstitution , and ritual . Fantasy themes were rejected also . It remains a modernist tenet that the cosmic , the ...
... ( Force Fields , 3-5 ) , is characteristic of his best work and of this approach to SF poetry . Among the finest crafts- men in the field , Joron consistently creates innovative , highly imagistic poetry , whose lines and phrases rivet ...
... Force Fields ( Joron ) , 167 Francis , Morgan , 140-41 , 145- 50 , 153 ; " He stood at the mir- ror , " 140-41 ; " Holiness of Clay , " 149-50 ; " One Dawn , " 153 ; " September Dawn , " 153 ; " Silence , " 145-47 ; The Sun Lights and ...
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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