Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Frost at Midnight" includes an emotional apostrophe to his two-year old son, Hartley, about the complex spiritual and artistic moments of transcendence that a truly visionary poet can find through the medium of Nature, away from the barriers of City walls: / (UNFORMATTED TABLE OR EQUATION FOLLOWS) / Coleridge's poem is itself a symbol of the focus of my study. I will explore the possibilities for, and the barriers against, the interrelated experiences of spiritual and artistic transcendence in the urban and natural landscapes of three writers: the English Romantics William Blake and Coleridge, examined in Chapters II and III, and the latter-day American Romantic, Frank Norris, treated in Chapters IV and V. In Chapter VI, I will extend my study to provide a brief look at urbanism in selected writers of the twentieth century. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-12, Section: A, page: 3711. / Major Professor: R. Bruce Bickley, Jr. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77891 |
| Contributors | Aparicio, George Bernabe., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 270 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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