Tagged: Lamartine

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 16, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 20)

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

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

October 31, 2019

(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...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

September 4, 2019

Romanticism and Nature (Part 3)

(Pictured: Wordsworth.) I am happy to present the third post of Chapter VIII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romanticism and Nature,” in which Irving Babbitt treats of the idolatry of outer nature, conceived as a...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 21, 2019

Romanticism and Nature (Part 2)

(Pictured: Salvator Rosa.) I am happy to present the second post of Chapter VIII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romanticism and Nature,” in which Irving Babbitt treats of the idolatry of outer nature, conceived as...