The New Laokoon (Part 17)
(Pictured: Victor Hugo.) I am happy to present the seventeenth 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...
(Pictured: Victor Hugo.) I am happy to present the seventeenth 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...
I am happy to present the tenth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.” This is the final installment of Chapter IV, The Theory of Spontaneity.
(Pictured: Narcissus.) I am happy to present the sixth and final post of Chapter VIII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romanticism and Nature,” in which Irving Babbitt treats of the idolatry of outer nature, conceived...
(Pictured: Novalis.) I am happy to present the fifth and final post of Chapter VII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Irony,” by which the romantics stand aloof from what they consider mere rationalism and...
(Pictured: Plotinus.) I am happy to present the third post of Chapter VII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Irony,” by which the romantics stand aloof from what they consider mere rationalism and philistinism. In...
(Pictured: Antigone.) I am happy to present the second post of Chapter VI of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Love,” in which Irving Babbitt shows that the romantic lover’s “ever-fleeting” object of desire only turns...
Babbitt shows that the romantic lover’s “ever-fleeting” object of desire only turns out in the end to be the lover himself in disguise.
(Pictured: Plato.) I am happy to present the seventh 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 the...
(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...
An Apology for Poetry: an Aristotelean View What follows is Part 3, the concluding part, of a commentary on my long poem, “The Young Poet’s Elegy to the Court of God,” in which several...
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