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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 Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

May 10, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 5)

(Pictured: Boileau.) I am happy to present the fifth post of Irving Babbitt’s book The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts, published in 1910, in which Babbitt followed the model...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 26, 2017

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter I (Part 5)

I am happy to present the fifth and final post of Chapter I of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the...