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.
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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.
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...
Romantic Irony (Part I)
(Pictured: Ludwig Tieck.) I am happy to present the first post of Chapter VII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Irony,” by which the romantics stand aloof from what they consider mere rationalism and philistinism....
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 11)
(Pictured: Lord Byron.) I am happy to present the eleventh (and final) post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 5)
(Pictured: Head of an Ass.) I am happy to present the fifth post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced...
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...
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