Tagged: Naturalism

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 9, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 27)

I am happy to present the twenty-seventh 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

September 7, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 26)

I am happy to present the twenty-sixth 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

June 22, 2022

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

October 9, 2020

James Joyce (Part 4)

(Pictured: James Joyce.) We herewith present the fourth and penultimate post of P. E. More’s essay, “James Joyce,” the fourth of nine essays that make up More’s book On Being Human. Paul Elmer More...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

September 8, 2020

James Joyce (Part 2)

We herewith present the second post of P. E. More’s essay, “James Joyce,” the fourth of nine essays that make up More’s book On Being Human.

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

November 9, 2017

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter II (Part 1)

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

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

March 8, 2017

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...