William Blake's American legacy : transcendentalism and visionary poetics in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman
This thesis examines William Blake's American legacy by identifying a precise American interest in Blake that can be dated from Ralph Waldo Emerson's early reading of Songs of Innocence and Experience in 1842. Chapter one will show that the New England Transcendentalists - primarily Emerso...
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University of Glasgow
2009
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495261 |