Tagged: Boileau

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

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.

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

May 10, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 5)

(Pictured: Boileau.) I am happy to present the fifth 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 model...

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

April 22, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 4)

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

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 24, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter III (Part 3)

(Pictured: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) I am happy to present the third post of Chapter III of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

January 12, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter II (Part 5)

I am happy to present the fifth and final post of Chapter II of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 3, 2017

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter I (Part 4)

I am happy to present the fourth post of Chapter I of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the most thoroughgoing...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

September 15, 2017

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter I (Part 3)

I am happy to present the third post of Chapter I of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the most thoroughgoing...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 22, 2017

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter I (Part 2)

I am happy to present the second post of Chapter I of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the most thoroughgoing...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 2, 2017

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter I, Section I

Having presented large tracts of Gilbert Murray’s Classical Tradition in Poetry, I believe the time is right to present selections from Irving Babbitt’s acclaimed work, Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which...