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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... speaker's as he sits within the raven's shadow at the close . In other words , we cannot be certain whether to regard the poem as an unfolding of supernatural events , or as a dramati- zation of the speaker's personal abnormal ...
... speaker can imagine herself again a girl , enables her to rekindle her childhood imag- ination in relation to her father's beliefs . On this moment pivots the entire poem as adult reality and childhood fantasy , the for- mer symbolized ...
... speaker identifies herself as one named “ Ostrogotha " who declares her relationship to a variety of animals , such as falcons , crabs , bats , and moths , and to at least one of the elements , rain . If Ostrogotha is the feminine form ...
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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