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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... understanding of a poem as a poem . " The com- plaint remains true , with few exceptions , for the understanding of poems written in the fantastic mode as both poems and as fantastic literature . I think that the utter neglect , until ...
... understanding and intuition , getting us to use feeling as the leading edge of thinking , and sometimes taking us to the limits of both , where a kind of subtle sensitivity begins to sense the shape of emergent form . So poetry's rules ...
... understanding functions . This allows us to grasp patterns , to see things as wholes ( gestalts ) ; to become more responsive to rhythm or other sound patterns , to the " sub- liminal " processes that go on when we read poetry ...
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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