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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... true Prot- estant Christian , and Una , his companion and guide , is the true Protestant Church of England . The female serpent can be al- legorically justified by reference to Eve and the Judeo - Christian account of the origin of sin ...
... true in human life . The poem is written in two parts . Part 1 achieves closure after 397 lines , part 2 after 311 lines . The poet does not immediately launch into the tale of Lamia's love for a Corinthian philosophy student named ...
... true wife , and thus he also questions reverence for that ' true " wife . Increasingly , after Keats , the Lilith is the muse that inducts man into a world of mysteries and delights , the man , that is , who is a partisan of negative ...
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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