• Publication: The Poetic Fantastic: Studies in an Evolving GenrePublication Record # 342128
• Authors: Vernon Hyles, Patrick D. Murphy
• Date: 1989-11-20
• ISBN: 0-313-26160-1 [978-0-313-26160-2]
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Pub. Series: Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Pub. Series #: 40
• Pages: xxv+201
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NONFICTION
• Notes:

  • Data from Greenwood Press
  • Contents and publication date from WorldCat, OCLC.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 19920256

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Poetry of the Fantastic • essay by Vernon Hyles
• Poetry and the Pre-Fantastic • essay by Peter Malekin
• Lamia As Muse • essay by Martha Nochimson
• Fantasy Figures in Poe's Poems • essay by Benjamin F. Fisher [as by Benjamin Franklin Fisher, IV]
• "The Hidden World Below": Victorian Women Fantasy Poets • essay by Charlotte Spivack
• C.S. Lewis's "Dymer": Once More with Hesitation • essay by Patrick D. Murphy
• Fantastic Elements in Holocaust Poetry: Abba Kovner's "Ahoti Ktanah" • essay by Carl Schaffer
• Entry to the Unaccounted For: Mark Strand's Fantastic Autism • essay by Lance Olsen
• The Black Art: New Critical Transformations and Anne Sexton's "Rapunzel" • essay by Karen Michalson
• Comic Fantasy in Two Post-Modern Verse Novels: Slinger and "Ko" • essay by Nancy Lang
• The Left Hand of Fabulation: The Poetry of Ursula K. LeGuin • essay by Patrick D. Murphy
• Some Thoughts on Stopping the World • essay by Ralph Yarrow
• Dialogues by Starlight: Three Approaches to Writing SF Poetry, with a Checklist of Related Works • essay by Michael R. Collings