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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... give the sense of the fantastic . 3. German balladry offered to Scott , Lewis , and Coleridge the brooding context on which to base the great romantic poems of the macabre , supernatural , and fantastic . The nineteenth century was so ...
... give to hold , / And none the wiser , " the narrator assumes the role of poet seeking the gift of inspiration : “ Give me one coin , one diamond - spark . " But the dragon refuses and in that refusal , she reveals herself as the true ...
... . But the lin- guistic and existential " gap " thus created must also give the op- portunity for new perception , and that in fact requires a new assessment of self and world , a turning inside out 138 The Poetic Fantastic.
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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