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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... never enjoy the marital bliss of the biblical " sister - bride ” ( ahoti callah ) ; she will neither see her family again , nor find completion in a family of her own . The omniscient brother , knowing this , envisions the wedding that ...
... never be filled - and in this way " The Whole Story " may serve as an emblem for Strand's project . It begins with a first - person narrator nudging the fellow trav- elling next to him on a train and telling him there is a fire outside ...
... never do find out what Slinger actually wants with Hughes , either ) . But that goal at the journey's end fades and dissolves as the plot moves through New Mexico and into southern Colorado , where the poem ends . In a similar vein , Ko ...
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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