Tagged: La Fontaine

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 Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

May 25, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 6)

I am happy to present the sixth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts,” published in 1910.

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 9, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 7)

(Pictured: Plato.) I am happy to present the seventh post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

January 26, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter III (Part 1)

(Pictured: Jean de la Fontaine) I am happy to present the first post of Chapter III of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced...