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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... means becoming a kind of rhythmic equivalence with the nature of order , or the order of nature , so poetry can produce it.12 From there , we can reach out to embrace anything , as in Crocker's “ Rain ” : “ ( It is this slowing - down ...
... mean in poetry what they would mean in ordinary speech , and that is the problem that all of these essays address . No ... means becomes ex- tended into the perceptual world and becomes dominant . If the formal features , the artifices ...
... means loses importance as we struggle toward what a poem means . It is important now to affect or reestablish that balance by stressing the importance of what we have termed the poetic fantastic . Bibliography Alexander , Edward . The ...
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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