Tagged: Ludwig Tieck

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

June 22, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 24)

I am happy to present the twenty-fourth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.” With this post we begin Chapter VII, the concluding chapter of the book.

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

April 26, 2019

Romantic Irony (Part I)

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