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Anonymous Fri Jul 13 23:42:40 2018 No.11458457 [Reply] [Original]

Is there any kind of elevated, literary fantasy that exists, by a writer on the caliber of Dickens or Victor Hugo? Or is LOTR with its boring ass prose closest we ever get?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 14 01:08:15 2018 No.11458702 >>11458457 i don't think so

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 14 01:10:52 2018 No.11458706 File: 6 KB, 187x269, George Macdonald.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11458457 George MacDonald, "Phantases" and "Lilith" Lord Dunsany, "The king of Elfland's Daughter" James Branch Cabell, "Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice"

Anonymous Sat Jul 14 03:33:57 2018 No.11459017

>>11458457
Faerie Queene.

I don’t know if you'd call it Fantasy strictly speaking cause it’s an Elizabethan epic, but it’s got satyr knights, giant catholic-monsters, dragons... it’s written in this weird pseudo-archaic way. Edmund Spenser literally made up words he thought sounded old times.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 14 03:41:44 2018 No.11459041 >>11459017 *old timey

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 14 11:12:51 2018 No.11460148 >>11458457 The Book of the New Sun

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 14 11:18:34 2018 No.11460168 >>11459017 Best answer ITT so far. Also, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Faust (particularly Part 2), the Aeneid, Paradise Lost, and the Divine Comedy. >inb4 they’re not fantasy Come at me

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 14 13:10:45 2018 No.11460560 >>11460524 how is any of that like black panther? oh right niggers

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 14 13:12:11 2018 No.11460567 >>11458457 Does magical realism count as fantasy?

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