Tagged: Shaftesbury

June 15, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 3)

(Pictured: Maximilien Robespierre.) I am happy to present the third 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...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

November 29, 2017

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter II (Part 2)

I am happy to present the second 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 most thoroughgoing...