Tagged: Lord Byron

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 8, 2023

Shelburne Essays: William Wordsworth (Part 2)

Having left the writings of Irving Babbitt, we are delving into the essays of Paul Elmer More. I am happy to present now the second post of More’s collection, “Shelburne Essays, Seventh Series.”

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

July 23, 2019

Romantic Irony (Part 5)

(Pictured: Novalis.) I am happy to present the fifth and final post of Chapter VII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Irony,” by which the romantics stand aloof from what they consider mere rationalism and...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

April 7, 2019

Romantic Love (Part 3)

(Pictured: George Sand.) I am happy to present the third and concluding post of Chapter VI of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Love,” in which Irving Babbitt shows that the romantic lover’s “ever-fleeting” object of...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 5, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 11)

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