Monthly Archive: October 2019

October 31, 2019

Romantic Melancholy (Part 1)

(Pictured: Pindar.) I am happy to present the first post of Chapter IX of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Melancholy,” in which Irving Babbitt asks, “does one become happy by being nostalgic and hyperaesthetic, by...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 17, 2019

Romanticism and Nature (Part 6)

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

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 3, 2019

Romanticism and Nature (Part 5)

(Pictured: Schelling.) I am happy to present the fifth 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...