Author: David Lane

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 16, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 20)

I am happy to present the twentieth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

January 27, 2022

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

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

January 7, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 18)

I am happy to present the eighteenth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

December 14, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 17)

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

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

November 24, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 16)

I am happy to present the sixteenth post (Word Painting, con’t) of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

November 3, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 15)

I am happy to present the fifteenth post (inaugurating Chapter VI) of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts”.

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 15, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 14)

(Pictured: Charles Beaudelaire.) I am happy to present the fourteenth post (the brief penultimate post of Chapter V) of Irving Babbitt’s book The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts, published...

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 1, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 13)

I am happy to present the thirteenth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

September 14, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 12)

A man becomes un-Platonic and pseudo-mystical in direct ratio to his contempt for rationality as compared with the unconscious, the spontaneous, the instinctive.

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 25, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 11)

I am happy to present the eleventh post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts,” published in 1910. This eleventh post inaugurates Chapter V: “Platonists and Pseudo-Platonists.”