Tagged: Bossuet

May 15, 2020

The Present Outlook (Part 6)

(Pictured: Irving Babbitt.) I am happy to present the sixth and final post of the final chapter of Rousseau and Romanticism, “The Present Outlook,” in which Irving Babbitt concludes that, “[m]an realizes [the] immensity...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

June 3, 2019

Romantic Irony (Part 2)

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