Phantastes

Introduction

George MacDonald Chronology

Notes on the Text & Annotations

Phantastes: Text

Appendix A: Phantastes and Novalis’ Epigraph

Appendix B: Reviews and Responses to Phantastes

   1) Athenæum (1858)

   2) The Leader (1858)

   3) Spectator (1858)

   4) The Globe (1858)

   5) The Eclectic Review (1859)

   6) British Quarterly Review (1859)

Review of Phantastes after MacDonald’s Death

   7) Stanley Robertson, “A Literary Causerie: Phantastes,” The Academy (1906)

Review of Phantastes in Commemoration of MacDonald’s Centenary Birth

   8) H. J. C. Grierson, “George MacDonald,” The Aberdeen University Review (1924)

Appendix C: German Romantics and other Influences

1) Edmund Spenser, from The Faerie Queene (1590)

2) Phineas Fletcher, from The Purple Island (1633)

3) Novalis, from Heinrich von Ofterdingen, A Romance (1800)

 a) “Longing for Death” from Hymns to the Night (1800)

4) Wordsworth, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (1802-1804; 1807) From The Prelude (1850)

5) Robert Blair, from “The Grave” (1743)

 a: Illustrations by William Blake

6) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Dejection: An Ode” (1802)

7) Friedrich von Shiller, “Longing” (1813)

8) Adelbert von Chamisso, from Peter Schlemihl (1814)

a: Illustration by George Cruikshank

9) E.âT. A. Hoffmann, from The Golden Pot: A Modern Fairytale (1814)

10) John Keats, “Ode on Melancholy” (1819)

      a: “Ode to a Nightingale” (1819)

      b: “La Bella Dame Sans Merci” (1819)

11) Heinrich Heine, from Exotics (1823)

12) Hans Christian Andersen: “The Shadow” (1847)

Appendix D: Fantasy and Realism in the Nineteenth Century

1) Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Custom House” from The Scarlet Letter (1850)

      a: “Preface” from The House of Seven Gables (1851)

2) Charles Dickens, “Frauds on the Faeries,” Household Words (1853)

      a: From Hard Times (1854)

      b: From Little Dorrit (1857)

3) George Henry Lewes, “Realism in Art: Recent German Fiction,” Westminster Review (1858)

4) George MacDonald, from “The Imagination: Its Function and its Culture” (1867)

      a: Dedication to The Portent (1864)

      b: “The Fantastic Imagination” (1893)

5) Henry Holbeach, “George MacDonald,” The Contemporary Review (1871)

Appendix E: Arthur Hughes Illustrations for the 1905 Edition of Phantastes

1) Greville MacDonald, Preface to the 1905 Edition of Phantastes

2) Jan Susina, “‘Not so grand, or so strong, but always lovely’: Arthur Hughes’s Illustrations to George MacDonald’s Phantastes”

      a: From John Bell’s Illustrations (1894)

      b: From Arthur Hughes’s Illustrations (1905)

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