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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... Perhaps , in the final analysis , it is not really Sexton's poems that are worth studying , but our own reactions to them . Our critical fantasies about reality are ultimately what make these poems interesting . Our human fantasies ...
... perhaps literally only the decaying leaves of this home , the line alludes to ancient customs of burying someone alive in the cor- nerstone of a building to ward off evil spirits . The poem also invokes a widely used image throughout ...
... Perhaps too it is a kind of consciousness that can extend beyond what we think of as personal memory . Some of his poems deal with this level , others explore the bedrock of his Welsh origins . " Holiness of Clay , ” which he also uses ...
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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