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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... hand of God the Father . Thou wilt bring me soon To that new world of light and bliss , among The gods who live at ease , where I shall reign At thy right hand voluptuous , as beseems Thy daughter and thy darling , without end . ( II ...
... hand of the lady ( 18 , fn6 ) . But this is not the case . Lewis denies Dymer a romance ending because that would replicate Dymer's own error of romanticizing and idealizing the world according to his own perceptions ( Sayer argues that ...
... hand , as E. D. Hirsch argues , such a metaphysics " simply exaggerates a difficulty into an impossibility " ( 149 ) by blasting that which we have always taken for granted about language and experience . On the other hand , as Jean ...
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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