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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

(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.”

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 4, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 10)

I am happy to present the tenth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.” This is the final installment of Chapter IV, The Theory of Spontaneity.

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

July 20, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 9)

I am happy to present the ninth 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

June 28, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 8)

Our previous post concluded Babbitt’s treatment of the neo-classical confusion of the arts; with this post we begin his treatment of the romantic confusion of the arts.