Tagged: Plato

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

April 4, 2024

An Apology for Poetry (Part 1)

Dear Reader, This post will be the first I have posted since last September. In the time since then, I have been busy about other things, including the promotion of my book, The Tragedy...

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

May 9, 2023

The New Laokoon (Part 32)

I am happy to present the thirty-second—and final—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

December 21, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 29)

I am happy to present the twenty-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

November 14, 2022

(Pictured: Benedetto Croce.) I am happy to present the twenty-eighth 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 Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

June 22, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 24)

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 Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

December 14, 2021

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...

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 1, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 13)

I am happy to present the thirteenth 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 14, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 12)

A man becomes un-Platonic and pseudo-mystical in direct ratio to his contempt for rationality as compared with the unconscious, the spontaneous, the instinctive.

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 25, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 11)

I am happy to present the eleventh post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts,” published in 1910. This eleventh post inaugurates Chapter V: “Platonists and Pseudo-Platonists.”

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 4, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 10)

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.