Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 4)
“[T]o deal aesthetically with truth is an error of the first magnitude….”
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Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 2)
(Pictured: Bismarck.) I am happy to present the second post of Chapter V, “Romantic Morality: The Real,” in which Babbitt addresses the descent of the romantics from altruistic idealism to egoistic realism, both representing...
Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 1)
(Pictured: Shelley.) Having provided a change of pace in the previous post with Mr. Mark Signorelli’s “Poetry and the Common Language,” we shall now return to Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism, presenting...
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...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 10)
(Pictured: Antigone.) I am happy to present the tenth (and penultimate) post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 8)
(Pictured: Hector Berlioz.) I am happy to present the eighth 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...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 7)
(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...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 6)
(Pictured: William Blake.) I am happy to present the sixth 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...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 5)
(Pictured: Head of an Ass.) I am happy to present the fifth post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 4)
(Pictured: Victor Hugo.) I am happy to present the fourth 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...
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