Monthly Archive: May 2018

May 18, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 1)

(Pictured: Blaise Pascal.) I am happy to present the first post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

May 3, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter III (Part 7)

(Pictured: Gustave Faubert.) I am happy to present the seventh (and final) post of Chapter III of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced...