Tagged: Ricarda Huch

July 9, 2019

Romantic Irony (Part 4)

(Pictured: Nietzsche.) I am happy to present the fourth 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...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 5, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 11)

(Pictured: Lord Byron.) I am happy to present the eleventh (and final) post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is...