>tfw so little literary fantasy >tfw when even less

Beowulf? The Iliad, Paradise Lost, the Odyssey? Most of them even are originally written in their own conlang.

>>9689931
Poor birb doesn't know about the Voyage of St Brendan or King Arthur myths or King Dag or Sigurd or Odin's memory and thought or even Aristophanes, all of which are fantasies about how birbs are very important, even political.

You should go to Conference of Birbs, and maybe Parliament of Fowles.

>>9689937
Mythologies are different the fantasies, but I do enjoy both.

Beowulf is one of the few.

Fantasy lyrical poetry seems to be the rarest.

>>9689965
>Fantasy lyrical poetry seems to be the rarest.
simorgh is very imprtant hmph

>>9689970
>[s4s] is our source on arabic fantasy poetry of the middle ages
why does this seem the most plausible thing /lit/'s told me today?

>>9689963
Birb is here to learn. Although I think post-industrial age fantasy is different than medieval 'fantasy'.
>>9689970
neat!

by fantasy i presume you mean wizards and elves type shit.

>>9689999
good quads.
>post-industrial age fantasy
maybe at swim two birbs, but that is not so much about birbs as kangarows.

>>9690006
I mean using artificially constructed beings/cultures to approach otherwise unreachable metaphorical truths.

>>9690019

have you read blake? might be a good start.

>>9690034
I love Blake and The Modernists.

I bought a fantasy rag last summer and lemme tell you there's a reason why there's little modern fantasy poetry. And that reason is because it's terrible.

If you're looking for literary fantasy check out
Invaders: 22 tales from the other limits of literature.

"Beautiful Monsters" and "Lambing Season" are both in it.