Tagged: Cervantes

July 23, 2019

Romantic Irony (Part 5)

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

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 25, 2019

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.

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

September 21, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 10)

(Pictured: Antigone.) I am happy to present the tenth (and penultimate) post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to...