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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... nature - he is no epic hero fated by a semi - divine birth or a sign from heaven- but physical nature , the world beyond the city walls , that stirs him to deviant behavior ( Sayer 99 ) . But what appears at first as a release , as a ...
... nature as inimical to him . Dymer regrets his lustful actions of the pre- ceding evening : " O fool , to have wasted for a kiss / Time when they could have talked " ( 37 ) . In his shame and regret he re- pudiates nature and longs again ...
... nature and the su- pernatural . This separation is suggested in the regeneration of the land and the monster after Dymer's death . Although nature goes through its cyclical renewal at the same time that the mons- ter is transformed into ...
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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