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Poetry and the Classical Tradition

Aeschylus (Part 1)

(Pictured: Aeschylus.) The following is the Introduction written by P. E. More for his translation of the Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus, published in 1899. We are therefore returning to Poetry and the Classical Tradition...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

James Joyce (Part 4)

(Pictured: James Joyce.) We herewith present the fourth and penultimate post of P. E. More’s essay, “James Joyce,” the fourth of nine essays that make up More’s book On Being Human. Paul Elmer More...

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. ”

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

Romantic Melancholy (Part 4)

(Pictured: Huysmans.) I am happy to present the fourth post of Chapter IX of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Melancholy,” in which Irving Babbitt asks, “does one become happy by being nostalgic and hyperaesthetic, by...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

Romantic Irony (Part 3)

(Pictured: Plotinus.) I am happy to present the third post of Chapter VII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Irony,” by which the romantics stand aloof from what they consider mere rationalism and philistinism. In...

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