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Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

January 7, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 18)

I am happy to present the eighteenth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

November 5, 2018

Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 1)

(Pictured: Shelley.) Having provided a change of pace in the previous post with Mr. Mark Signorelli’s “Poetry and the Common Language,” we shall now return to Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism, presenting...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

July 12, 2018

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...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

December 13, 2017

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter II (Part 3)

I am happy to present the third post of Chapter II of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the most thoroughgoing...