Monthly Archive: August 2019

August 21, 2019

Romanticism and Nature (Part 2)

(Pictured: Salvator Rosa.) I am happy to present the second post of Chapter VIII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romanticism and Nature,” in which Irving Babbitt treats of the idolatry of outer nature, conceived as...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 6, 2019

Romanticism and Nature (Part 1)

(Pictured: Boileau.) I am happy to present the first post of Chapter VIII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romanticism and Nature,” in which Irving Babbitt treats of the idolatry of outer nature, conceived as a...