Romantic Love (Part 2)
(Pictured: Antigone.) I am happy to present the second post of Chapter VI of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Love,” in which Irving Babbitt shows that the romantic lover’s “ever-fleeting” object of desire only turns...
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Romantic Love (Part 1)
Babbitt shows that the romantic lover’s “ever-fleeting” object of desire only turns out in the end to be the lover himself in disguise.
Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 6)
(Pictured: Alfred de Musset.) I am happy to present the sixth and final post of Chapter V, “Romantic Morality: The Real,” in which Irving Babbitt addresses the descent of the romantics from altruistic idealism...
Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 5)
(Pictured: Robert Browning.) I am happy to present the fifth post of Chapter V, “Romantic Morality: The Real,” in which Irving Babbitt addresses the descent of the romantics from altruistic idealism to egoistic realism,...
Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 4)
“[T]o deal aesthetically with truth is an error of the first magnitude….”
Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 3)
(Pictured: Friedrich Nietzsche.) I am happy to present the third post of Chapter V, “Romantic Morality: The Real,” in which Irving Babbitt addresses the descent of the romantics from altruistic idealism to egoistic realism, both...
Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 2)
(Pictured: Bismarck.) I am happy to present the second post of Chapter V, “Romantic Morality: The Real,” in which Babbitt addresses the descent of the romantics from altruistic idealism to egoistic realism, both representing...
Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 1)
(Pictured: Shelley.) Having provided a change of pace in the previous post with Mr. Mark Signorelli’s “Poetry and the Common Language,” we shall now return to Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism, presenting...
Poetry and the Common Language
(Pictured: Aristotle.) The previous post presented the concluding text of “Romantic Morality: The Ideal,” constituting Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s Rousseau and Romanticism. Before launching into Chapter V, “Romantic Morality: The Real,” in which...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 11)
(Pictured: Lord Byron.) I am happy to present the eleventh (and final) post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is...
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