Tagged: Matthew Arnold

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

September 13, 2023

Wordsworth (Part 3)

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

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

May 9, 2023

The New Laokoon (Part 32)

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

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

March 24, 2023

The New Laokoon (Part 31)

I am happy to present the thirty-first—the penultimate—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

November 24, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 16)

I am happy to present the sixteenth post (Word Painting, con’t) 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

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

June 4, 2020

(Pictured: Percy Bysshe Shelley) Having presented the entirety of Irving Babbit’s Rousseau and Romanticism over the course of nearly three years, I believe that selections from the critical works of P. E. More, Babbitt’s...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition / Rousseau

November 29, 2019

Romantic Melancholy (Part 3)

(Pictured: Barbey d’Aurevilly.) I am happy to present the third post of Chapter IX of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Melancholy,” in which Irving Babbitt asks, “does one become happy by being nostalgic and hyperaesthetic,...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 31, 2019

Romantic Melancholy (Part 1)

(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...