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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 Romantic Tradition

March 4, 2020

(Pictured: Goethe.) I am happy to present the second post of the final chapter of Rousseau and Romanticism, “The Present Outlook,” in which Irving Babbitt concludes that, “[m]an realizes [the] immensity of his being...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

November 14, 2019

Romantic Melancholy (Part 2)

(Pictured: Chateaubriand.) I am happy to present the second 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

October 3, 2019

Romanticism and Nature (Part 5)

(Pictured: Schelling.) I am happy to present the fifth 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...