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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... move to less fantastic generalizations about humanity in such poems as “ The Haunted Chamber , " " Haunted Houses ... moving into what was to be a rather unwelcoming modern period . The aesthetes and deca- dents under the guidance of ...
... moves through New Mexico and into southern Colorado , where the poem ends . In a similar vein , Ko steps from a Tokyo - Tampa ... move freely and comfortably within new ontological patterns when reading these fantasies . Usual , expected ...
... move . I turn now . I become Transparent , a web of veins of light , I Hear voices in my hollow skull , feel The ... moved from individuality ( “ I ” ) to an absorption in all things , which is “ infinite . ” The experience is one of ...
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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