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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... human attainment . The hubris that led to his immoral action in the enchanted building has finally been expunged : " He has ceased to try to escape through fantasy . He is rescued by contact with complete and integrated , God - made ...
... human , he is in a position to understand the lesson of his own fate . Having fatally erred by reducing the initial encounter with the goddess to an experience of lust , he must make amends by combatting the progeny that encounter ...
... human mind may be simply incapable of grasping some of the laws of nature . " Beginning with a rather prosaic statement , “ Take the case of Phineas Gage in 1848 / and the four foot steel bar / that blew through his cheek and forebrain ...
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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