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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... romantic poets were having great difficulty publishing poems in major magazines ; and popular magazines with literary aspirations and quality would , in fact , soon after the turn of the century begin to dis- appear . One of the major ...
... romantics spawned . He anticipated the romantic paradigm of the supposedly corrupt , but actually pure courtesan , purer than the righteous bourgeois father who separates her from his son . He parallels the redeemed version of the ...
... romantic affirmation of life " as one of the poem's lessons and agrees with Dabney Hart that the poem has a " romantic theme " in which he is allowed to make amends for his error and through suffering gain the hand of the lady ( 18 ...
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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