Tagged: Kipling

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

January 27, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 19)

(Pictured: Rudyard Kipling.) I am happy to present the nineteenth post of Irving Babbitt’s book The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts, published in 1910, in which Babbitt followed the...

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

June 20, 2017

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...