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Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

May 21, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 23)

I am happy to present the twenty-third post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.” This post concludes Chapter VI.

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

December 13, 2019

(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...