Description: Table of Contents Preface Introduction.Fantasy: Recovering What Was Lost One."Quieting the Eye": The Perception of the Eternal through the Temporal in Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Two.The Ideal and the Shadow: George MacDonald's Phantastes Three."Further Up and Further In": Apocalypse and the New Narnia in C.S. Lewis's The Last Battle Four.The Fading of the World: Tolkien's Ecology and Loss in The Lord of the Rings Five.Affirming the World that Swerves: The ­Alter-Tales in Algernon Blackwood's The Centaur and Ursula Le Guin's Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Six."A daisy is nearer heaven than an airship": The Utopian Vision in Algernon Blackwood's The Centaur Seven."Yes. You can keep your eye": Ursula Le Guin's Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Eight.The Sacramental Vision: Perceiving the World Anew Bibliography Index

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