Tagged: Emerson

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

December 21, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 29)

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

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 6, 2020

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

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

June 22, 2019

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...