Tagged: Romanticism

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

November 3, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 15)

I am happy to present the fifteenth post (inaugurating Chapter VI) 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

October 15, 2021

(Pictured: Charles Beaudelaire.) I am happy to present the fourteenth post (the brief penultimate post of Chapter V) of Irving Babbitt’s book The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts, published...

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

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 Romantic Tradition

June 4, 2020

Shelley (Part 1)

(Pictured: Percy Bysshe Shelley) Having presented the entirety of Irving Babbit’s Rousseau and Romanticism over the course of nearly three years, I believe that selections from the critical works of P. E. More, Babbitt’s...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 31, 2019

Romantic Melancholy (Part 1)

(Pictured: Pindar.) I am happy to present the first post of Chapter IX of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Melancholy,” in which Irving Babbitt asks, “does one become happy by being nostalgic and hyperaesthetic, by...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 3, 2019

Romanticism and Nature (Part 5)

(Pictured: Schelling.) I am happy to present the fifth post of Chapter VIII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romanticism and Nature,” in which Irving Babbitt treats of the idolatry of outer nature, conceived as a...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 6, 2019

Romanticism and Nature (Part 1)

(Pictured: Boileau.) I am happy to present the first post of Chapter VIII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romanticism and Nature,” in which Irving Babbitt treats of the idolatry of outer nature, conceived as a...