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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... sound like words : Oh , list ! ( IV.i.510-18 ) Demogorgon is again characterized as the darkness that is be- yond light , and the universal sound / meaning that is beyond words , and in the light of his darkness the relative reality of ...
... sounds surrounding where the sentence ends . ( Holiness ) Consciousness as language becomes a dédoublement — a mirroring of the ... sound , and word are used to lead toward the " cradled likeness " of the poem's center , to progress from ...
... sound : And the birds are also awake , Defining and locating us on a map still without borders , Still measured in little spheres of inward sight and sound , Circles of delicate impulse perceived behind flickering eyes ; " Baxter , in ...
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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