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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... poets accepted into the " canon " who has been recognized as a fantasist and criticized along such lines . Some ... poets mentioned so far . But these various examples can serve to sug- gest the breadth and significance of low fantasy in ...
... poets and her own fantasy poems . There is but one fleeting reference to Jean Ingelow as a rival poet , and the supernatural poems are not even cited in the index . It is also no coincidence that the women poets best remembered today ...
... poets away from the realistic depiction of character , event , or idea toward the mythic , strange , irrational , and inexplicable . Any conclusions in a book of this nature must remain tentative . The poets examined are not the only ...
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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