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Phantastes Chapter 5: Romance Of Sir Launfal, Thomas Chestre Jan 1960

Phantastes Chapter 5: Romance Of Sir Launfal, Thomas Chestre

German Romantic and Other Influences

A medieval poem of 1045 lines telling of a knight who loses status and wealth and who meets a beautiful woman who gives him love and wealth as long as he keeps her existence a secret. The motif of the lover’s prohibition appears in several medieval texts, and MacDonald makes use of this motif in this chapter.

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Phantastes Chapter 6: The Demon Lady, William Motherwell Jan 1930

Phantastes Chapter 6: The Demon Lady, William Motherwell

German Romantic and Other Influences

From the poem “The Demon Lady” (1830), first published in The Edinburgh Literary Journal. William Motherwell (1797-1835) was a Scottish journalist and poet, as well as a collector of local Scottish ballads.

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Phantastes Chapter 5: Pygmalion, Thomas Lovell Beddoes Jan 1912

Phantastes Chapter 5: Pygmalion, Thomas Lovell Beddoes

German Romantic and Other Influences

Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) was a Romantic poet intensely focused on death. His poem “Pygmalion” (1825) recounts the myth of the Cypriot sculptor who fell in love with the statue he carved. In this chapter, MacDonald echoes this myth.

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Phantastes Chapter 12: A Threefold Cord, Unknown Dec 1882

Phantastes Chapter 12: A Threefold Cord, Unknown

German Romantic and Other Influences

This poem appears in MacDonald’s A Threefold Cord (1883), where MacDonald is credited as contributor and editor. In this volume, individual authors are not credited. While some have thought that this passage is by MacDonald himself, Nick Page persuasively argues that the poem should be attributed to MacDonald’s friend Greville Ewing Matheson. See Page, Phantastes: Special Annotated Edition (Paternoster, 2008)

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Phantastes Chapter 3: Man, Henry Septimus Sutton Dec 1847

Phantastes Chapter 3: Man, Henry Septimus Sutton

German Romantic and Other Influences

Henry Septimus Sutton (1825-1901) was a poet and journalist who met MacDonald in the early 1850s in Manchester. They became lifelong friends, Sutton sharing something of MacDonald’s mystical bent. In 1857, Sutton joined the Peter Street Society of Swedenborgians and he was active as a lay preacher. MacDonald quotes Sutton’s poem “Man” (1848).

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Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams Poem "To Thomas," 1842., Louisa Catherine Adams Jan 1842

Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams Poem "To Thomas," 1842., Louisa Catherine Adams

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Louisa Catherine Adams was the wife of John Quincy Adams. She was the first lady from 1825-1829, and she was the only first lady to be born outside the U.S. Adams writes this poem to Thomas, stating "your presence eased the lab'ring thought/the note aside was laid/ Before, with kind expression fraught/my compliment was paid." Dated January 25, 1842.

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Phantastes Chapter 1: Alastor; Or, The Spirit Of Solitude, Percy Bysshe Shelley Dec 1815

Phantastes Chapter 1: Alastor; Or, The Spirit Of Solitude, Percy Bysshe Shelley

German Romantic and Other Influences

A quest poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) published in 1816. The full title is “Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude.” MacDonald quotes lines 484-488 in which the Poet encounters his soulmate. Shelley’s poem is a major influence on Phantastes, and Shelley’s Preface to “Alastor” offers a nice gloss on MacDonald’s fantasy. “The poem entitled ‘Alastor’ may be considered as allegorical of one of the most interesting situations of the human mind. It represents a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius led forth by an imagination inflamed and purified through familiarity with all that is excellent and majestic, …

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Phantastes Chapter 9: Dejection: An Ode, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jan 1802

Phantastes Chapter 9: Dejection: An Ode, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

German Romantic and Other Influences

From Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode" (lines 47-49 and 53-58). Coleridge published the poem in 1802.

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Phantastes Chapter 2: Heinrich Von Ofterdingen, Georg Philipp Friedrich Dec 1801

Phantastes Chapter 2: Heinrich Von Ofterdingen, Georg Philipp Friedrich

German Romantic and Other Influences

Novalis is Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801). A German writer who helped define German Romanticism, he was a key influence on MacDonald. Heinrich von Ofterdingen (1802) is a fantastical romance that concerns a young poet in search of love, who has dream visions. A central symbol in the work is a blue flower, which has become an icon for German Romanticism.

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