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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... living Spirit . Demogorgon . Ask what thou wouldst know . Asia . What canst thou tell ? Demogorgon . All things thou dar'st demand . ( II.iv.2–8 ) The transition from " I " to " we " is significant , as is the combi- nation of light and ...
... living and thereby permit him to rest in peace . The gender roles are reversed in " The Poor Ghost , " in which it is the woman's ghost who returns to her lover . Her message to the living is much the same , as she begs him to cease ...
... living context for the argument of this book . As they continue to change the literary landscape with each new utterance , so the vision of the fantasy poem will continue to alter and be altered by the very body of writing from which it ...
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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