I thought that it might be helpful to the reader to re-publish the first three posts of Tradition Restored, which, beginning in the August of 2016, I posted as an introduction to the blog. I offer them again considerably revised.
I am happy to present the thirteenth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”
I am happy to present the ninth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”
(Pictured: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.) I am happy to present the first post of Irving Babbitt’s book The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts, published in 1910, in which Babbitt followed...
We here present the final part (Part 5) of the Introduction written by P. E. More for his translation of the “Prometheus Bound” of Aeschylus, published in 1899.
I am happy to present the fourth post of the final chapter of Rousseau and Romanticism, “The Present Outlook,” in which Irving Babbitt concludes that, “[m]an realizes [the] immensity of his being . . . only in so far as he ceases to be the thrall of his own ego. This human breadth he achieves not by throwing off but by taking on limitations, and what he limits is above all his imagination. ”
(Pictured: Goethe.) I am happy to present the second post of the final chapter of Rousseau and Romanticism, “The Present Outlook,” in which Irving Babbitt concludes that, “[m]an realizes [the] immensity of his being...
(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...
(Pictured: Huysmans.) I am happy to present the fourth post of Chapter IX of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Melancholy,” in which Irving Babbitt asks, “does one become happy by being nostalgic and hyperaesthetic, by...
(Pictured: Pindar.) I am happy to present the first post of Chapter IX of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Melancholy,” in which Irving Babbitt asks, “does one become happy by being nostalgic and hyperaesthetic, by...
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