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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... kind of poetry , as poetry was a kind of magic " ( 130 ) . It was a new school of criticism , growing during Yeats's time , that was , though , dismissing imaginative subject matter ; rhymed and metered poetry was fading ; romantic ...
... kind of pre - linguistic level , a physiology of poetry that must presumably be common to all people who possess the senses of sight and hearing , and can — potentially at least — appreciate these in their most subtle phases . A ...
... kind of prior reduction or guiding back to the fulcrum of imaginative activity that these poems operate . Here is the center of time and change , life and death : for Francis , as for many poets , the " unnamed place " where memories ...
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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