Tagged: Classicism

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 Romantic Tradition

April 3, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter III (Part 5)

(Pictured: August Wilhelm Schlegel.) I am happy to present the fifth post of Chapter III of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to...

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

December 29, 2017

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter II (Part 4)

I am happy to present the fourth 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 most thoroughgoing...

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 Classical Tradition

March 8, 2017

The Classical Tradition in Poetry, Chapter 5

Having published my “Apology for Poetry” and much of chapters I and II of Gilbert Murray’s great work, The Classical Tradition in Poetry, I am herewith offering Chapter V, “Poetic Diction.” Murray here defends...

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

December 16, 2016

An Apology for Poetry, Part 3

An Apology for Poetry: an Aristotelean View What follows is Part 3, the concluding part, of a commentary on my long poem, “The Young Poet’s Elegy to the Court of God,” in which several...

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

November 17, 2016

An Apology for Poetry, Part 2

An Apology for Poetry: an Aristotelean View What follows is Part 2 of a commentary on my long poem, “The Young Poet’s Elegy to the Court of God,” in which several years ago I...