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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... seems , tend to think of fantasy poems more often as high fantasy and as a closed historical genre . They find it hard to take seriously the effort to write a fantastic metrical romance or a Golden Age epic in the twentieth century ...
... seems like a dangerously naive thing to do in public nowadays . When I began to write it was not my intent to be so relentlessly " new critical " about Sexton's text , but on reflection it seems natural to have chosen this particular ...
... seems to be leading us to some quality in our consciousness that can accommodate these opposites , some flexible but ... seem best able to cope with such a vision , I would like to introduce the work of some largely unknown English ...
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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