October 2018 - Tradition Restored

October 20, 2018

Poetry and the Common Language

(Pictured: Aristotle.) The previous post presented the concluding text of “Romantic Morality: The Ideal,” constituting Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s Rousseau and Romanticism. Before launching into Chapter V, “Romantic Morality: The Real,” in which...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 5, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 11)

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