A Comparative Study of the Concept of Childhood on British Romanticism and AmericanTranscendentalism in Comparison with Mystical poetry of Mevlana.

Abstract

This paper studies the concept of childhood and its various uses in some Romantic and Transcendentalist poets including Mevlana whom Emerson was quite familiar with. Childhood, the dominant theme in both Romanticism and Transcendentalism covers the main theme in the poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge in Europe and Emerson and Whitman in America. This concept has also been used ambiguously and symbolically in Mevlana's Mystical Poetry, and so is worth comparing with the works of English Romanticism And American Transcendentalism.