Three Songs for Children

John Urban considers his poetic work to be in the Romantic Tradition of Emily Dickinson, Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens, but distinguishes it as Transcendental Romanticism. His interests and influences include Classical Metaphysics and Modern Spirituality. As Elizabeth Porter has said of his work it is “rich with metaphysical insight” and through its meanderings “our innocence is restored and we know ourselves to be the children to whom these Poems beckon.”