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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... poetic license — that differ from the ac- cepted ones . If the words , ideas , places , or people existed in the real world , then poets would not be forced to couch their created worlds in the symbolic , the surreal , or the absurd ...
... poetic form and context affect the sentences they include and the non - verbal world that the sentences imply ? These have always been the major questions poets and critics wrestle with ; they remain so today . Proposing a poetic ...
... poetic lan- guage and poetic thought are what make poems something other than thematic statements about the external world . The analysis of poems and the study of poets should work toward the iden- tification and the naming of non ...
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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