The New Laokoon (Part 31)
I am happy to present the thirty-first—the penultimate—post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”
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The New Laokoon (Part 15)
I am happy to present the fifteenth post (inaugurating Chapter VI) of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts”.
Aeschylus (Part 1)
(Pictured: Aeschylus.) The following is the Introduction written by P. E. More for his translation of the Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus, published in 1899. We are therefore returning to Poetry and the Classical Tradition...
James Joyce (Part 2)
We herewith present the second post of P. E. More’s essay, “James Joyce,” the fourth of nine essays that make up More’s book On Being Human.
The Present Outlook (Part 6)
(Pictured: Irving Babbitt.) I am happy to present the sixth and final post of the final chapter of Rousseau and Romanticism, “The Present Outlook,” in which Irving Babbitt concludes that, “[m]an realizes [the] immensity...
Romantic Melancholy (Part 2)
(Pictured: Chateaubriand.) I am happy to present the second 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...
Romantic Melancholy (Part 1)
(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...
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 2)
(Pictured: Friedrich von Schiller) I am happy to present the second post of Chapter III of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to...
The Classical Tradition in Poetry, Chapter VII (Part 1)
Having published my “Apology for Poetry” and much of chapters I, II, V, and VI of Gilbert Murray’s great work, The Classical Tradition in Poetry, I am herewith offering the first post of Chapter...
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