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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... possible frames of reference for answering this kind of question , but the frames of reference are inevitably and , like all frames of reference , ultimately invalid . Asia's implied question about the nature of ultimate reality tran ...
... possible , however , for the mother's blank eyes cannot see and the lonely daughter's voice cannot be heard . The description of the ghosts is evocative . They are shadowless , a detail that the earlier fantasist Dante Alighieri would ...
... possible by similar means in the lower mirror world in which we exist . In language , then , lies redemption ; and it is fitting that this mystical potential of language should have been predicted in still another Zoharic interpretation ...
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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