Tradition Restored

Author: David Lane

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

Shelley (Part 3)

(Pictured: John Milton.) We herewith present the third of the (now) four posts comprising P. E. More’s essay, “Shelley,” which appears in the seventh volume of The Shelburne Essays. Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) was an American journalist, critic, essayist, and Christian apologist.

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

Shelley (Part 2)

(Pictured: Elizabeth Hitchener) We herewith present the second of the three posts comprising P. E. More’s essay, “Shelley,” which appears in the seventh volume of The Shelburne Essays. Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) was an...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

Shelley (Part 1)

(Pictured: Percy Bysshe Shelley) Having presented the entirety of Irving Babbit’s Rousseau and Romanticism over the course of nearly three years, I believe that selections from the critical works of P. E. More, Babbitt’s...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

The Present Outlook (Part 4)

I am happy to present the fourth 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 . . . only in so far as he ceases to be the thrall of his own ego. This human breadth he achieves not by throwing off but by taking on limitations, and what he limits is above all his imagination. ”

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