Download or read book Poetry and Phantasy written by Antony Easthope and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-04-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author examines the relation between historical materialism and psychoanalysis for the understanding of literature. He analyzes central poems in the canonical tradition, poems of courtly love, Romantic poetry, and the modernism and post-modernism of Eliot and Pound.