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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... includes , instead of excluding , herself ” ( 316 ) . I would like to emend this by saying that this revisioning should include mythic symbols , locations , and terms , such as the " henge , " as well as mythic stories , and that both ...
... includes a few short high fantasy poems , such as " Footnote " ( 288 ) .2 In this poem the speaker identifies herself as one named “ Ostrogotha " who declares her relationship to a variety of animals , such as falcons , crabs , bats ...
... includes such disparate works as Blake's " The Four Zoas " and The Odyssey . As the editor of the Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry , Tem rejects such expansive claims , noting in his introduction that he included primarily ...
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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