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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... vision form . In the " Little Songs for Gaia " section of Axe Handles , Snyder presents a series of untitled brief poems . In one of these ( p . 51 ) , he begins with a standard dream vision format . But then , after giving us one ...
... vision demands holistic language functioning as poetry , rather than discursive prose , which is linear in argument and working within the dualities of conventional logic ( such prose may describe the vision , but it cannot realize it ) ...
... vision . And in the final section of the poem , the speaker recognizes that a greater world of imaginative vision lies beyond such nostalgia . She claims to have been looking for a sign from heaven , and she receives one . Accepting the ...
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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