Tagged: Heinrich Heine

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 4, 2021

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.

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

April 26, 2019

(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....