Tagged: Samuel Johnson

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.

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

March 15, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter III (Part 4)

(Transcendentalism: Looking Up the Yosemite Valley by A. Bierstadt) I am happy to present the fourth post of Chapter III of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

January 12, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter II (Part 5)

I am happy to present the fifth and final post of Chapter II of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 3, 2017

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter I (Part 4)

I am happy to present the fourth post of Chapter I of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the most thoroughgoing...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 22, 2017

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter I (Part 2)

I am happy to present the second post of Chapter I of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the most thoroughgoing...

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

May 4, 2017

The Classical Tradition in Poetry, Chapter 6 (Part 2)

Having published my “Apology for Poetry” and much of chapters I, II, and V of Gilbert Murray’s great work, The Classical Tradition in Poetry, I am herewith offering the second of four posts representing...