Monthly Archive: March 2020

March 20, 2020

The Present Outlook (Part 3)

(Pictured: Gautama Buddha.) I am happy to present the third post of the final chapter of Rousseau and Romanticism, “The Present Outlook,” in which Irving Babbitt concludes that, “[m]an realizes [the] immensity of his...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

March 4, 2020

The Present Outlook (Part 2)

(Pictured: Goethe.) I am happy to present the second post of the final chapter of Rousseau and Romanticism, “The Present Outlook,” in which Irving Babbitt concludes that, “[m]an realizes [the] immensity of his being...