February 2021 - Tradition Restored

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 24, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 1)

(Pictured: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.) I am happy to present the first post of Irving Babbitt’s book The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts, published in 1910, in which Babbitt followed...

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

February 5, 2021

Aeschylus (Part 5)

We here present the final part (Part 5) of the Introduction written by P. E. More for his translation of the “Prometheus Bound” of Aeschylus, published in 1899.