The New Laokoon (Part 16)
I am happy to present the sixteenth post (Word Painting, con’t) of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”
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Shelley (Part 1)
(Pictured: Percy Bysshe Shelley) Having presented the entirety of Irving Babbit’s Rousseau and Romanticism over the course of nearly three years, I believe that selections from the critical works of P. E. More, Babbitt’s...
Romanticism and Nature (Part 4)
I am happy to present the fourth post of Chapter VIII of “Rousseau and Romanticism,” “Romanticism and Nature,” in which Irving Babbitt treats of the idolatry of outer nature, conceived as a paradise where the romanticist may live free of social convention and practice revery.
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.
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