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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... truth is opposed to what is more fundmental in human nature ( and what is most fundamental of all is itself truth , the truth of unconditioned being , or non - being , because it is not being in the relative sense ) . Either of the ...
... truth , indeed , " what the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth " ( Mahoney 636 ) . In his most famous letter , to his brothers on December 21 , 1817 , he writes of negative capability . This , he says , is the at- tribute of men ...
... truth beyond her subjective impressions . When Rapunzel questions the prince " he dazzled her with his answers " ( 1.123 ) , again showing that any accurate knowledge of him is beyond her comprehension . God and the serpent of deceit ...
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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