Monthly Archive: January 2020

January 22, 2020

Romantic Melancholy (Part 6)

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

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

January 6, 2020

Romantic Melancholy (Part 5)

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