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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... supernatural ; everything seemed imbued with the marvelous , the magical , and the transcendental . Thus there are poetic precursors such as early Irish with its emphasis on supernatural mood , Germanic verse with its monstrous fire ...
... supernatural , as did many male poets and novelists . Be- cause of the new emphasis on rationalism that had begun in the eighteenth century , the supernatural world had been largely rejected and explained away , as a result of which ...
... supernatural . Canto VI heightens this debate between an interpretation of the events as dreams and one that ascribes it to supernatural experience as Dymer debates the corporeality of the girl with a dream - dazed alchemist and dabbler ...
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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