Masterpost: Fantasy (1)
Given I made a lot of posts related to fantasy literature and the fantasy genre, I will organize in this masterpost the first part of my large "fantasy read-list", collecting through various articles and books all the numerous works that either are fantasy, influenced fantasy, or can be considered proto-fantasy. (With bonus content)
Note that I will not placed in this masterpost stuff like posts about my personal opinion, I prefer to collect here posts exploring the genre and listing works as references.
PART A: Ancient fantasy
1: Mythological texts (Greco-Roman)
2: Mythological texts (other religions and civilizations)
3: Arthurian myth and medieval texts
1.5: Modern fantasy works inspired by Greco-Roman mythology
3.5: A complement about the Arthuriana
PART B: The first "classical" fantasy
1: In the Isles, from Shakespeare to Ossian
2: In France, a century of fairy tales
1.5: Fantasy works inspired by Shakespeare
2.5: A companion post to the fairytales one (from Rabelais to Mother Goose)
Fantasy sights
Ingres
Joseph Wright of Derby
Joseph Noel Paton
Anne-Louis Girodet
Richard Jesse Watson
Walter Crane
Abildgaard
William Heath Robinson
Heinrich Kley
Leyendecker
Fuseli
BONUS: "Foreign" fantasy (aka, non-English-written fantasy works)
A cosmogony of French fantasy
The arduous path to French fantasy
Fantasy throughout the world
And as one last bonus...
My Seasonal Theme for Summer. "Magical Summer", part 1 and part 2