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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... Once More with Hesitation PATRICK D. MURPHY I have been amazed by how little has been written on C. S. Lewis's narrative poem " Dymer " and even more amazed that so much of what has been said shows peculiar failures of the critical imag ...
... once . On the one hand , as E. D. Hirsch argues , such a metaphysics " simply exaggerates a difficulty into an impossibility " ( 149 ) by blasting that which we have always taken for granted about language and experience . On the other ...
... once it is born . Mother Gothel names her Rapunzel , another name for " rampion . " Yet , " rampion , " or Rapunzel , is not to be had . Mother Gothel cannot keep the plant successfully under lock and key , although the " garden was ...
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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