Shelburne Essays – Wordsworth
We are now leaving the writings of Irving Babbitt and delving into the brilliant essays of Paul Elmer More. I am happy to present the first post of More’s collection, “Shelburne Essays, Seventh Series.”
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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.”
Aeschylus (Part 5)
We here present the final part (Part 5) of the Introduction written by P. E. More for his translation of the “Prometheus Bound” of Aeschylus, published in 1899.
Shelley (Part 4)
The fourth and concluding post of P. E. More’s essay, “Shelley,” which appears in the seventh volume of “The Shelburne Essays.”
Shelley (Part 3)
(Pictured: John Milton.) We herewith present the third of the (now) four posts comprising P. E. More’s essay, “Shelley,” which appears in the seventh volume of The Shelburne Essays. Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) was an American journalist, critic, essayist, and Christian apologist.
The Present Outlook (Part 1)
(Pictured: Dante.) I am happy to present the first 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...
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,...
The Classical Tradition in Poetry, Chapter 5 (Part 2)
Having published my “Apology for Poetry” and much of chapters I and II of Gilbert Murray’s great work, The Classical Tradition in Poetry, I am herewith offering the second of three posts representing Chapter...
The Classical Tradition in Poetry, Chapter 5
Having published my “Apology for Poetry” and much of chapters I and II of Gilbert Murray’s great work, The Classical Tradition in Poetry, I am herewith offering Chapter V, “Poetic Diction.” Murray here defends...
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