Tagged: Neo-classicism

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

July 27, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 25)

I am happy to present the twenty-fifth 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

July 20, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 9)

I am happy to present the ninth 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 28, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 8)

Our previous post concluded Babbitt’s treatment of the neo-classical confusion of the arts; with this post we begin his treatment of the romantic confusion of the arts.

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

June 12, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 7)

I am happy to present the seventh 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

April 6, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 3)

(Pictured: Alexander Pope.) I am happy to present the third 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...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

June 1, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 2)

(Pictured: Denis Diderot.) I am happy to present the second post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 24, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter III (Part 3)

(Pictured: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) I am happy to present the third post of Chapter III of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

January 12, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter II (Part 5)

I am happy to present the fifth and final 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...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

December 13, 2017

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter II (Part 3)

I am happy to present the third 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 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...