Tagged: Robert Browning

April 7, 2019

Romantic Love (Part 3)

(Pictured: George Sand.) I am happy to present the third and concluding post of Chapter VI of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Love,” in which Irving Babbitt shows that the romantic lover’s “ever-fleeting” object of...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 1, 2019

Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 6)

(Pictured: Alfred de Musset.) I am happy to present the sixth and final post of Chapter V, “Romantic Morality: The Real,” in which Irving Babbitt addresses the descent of the romantics from altruistic idealism...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

January 10, 2019

Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 5)

(Pictured: Robert Browning.) I am happy to present the fifth post of Chapter V, “Romantic Morality: The Real,” in which Irving Babbitt addresses the descent of the romantics from altruistic idealism to egoistic realism,...