The New Laokoon (Part 16)
I am happy to present the sixteenth post (Word Painting, con’t) of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”
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Romanticism and Nature (Part 4)
I am happy to present the fourth 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 paradise where the romanticist may live free of social convention and practice revery.
Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 4)
“[T]o deal aesthetically with truth is an error of the first magnitude….”
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...
The Classical Tradition in Poetry, Chapter 6 (Part 1)
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 first of four posts representing...
The Classical Tradition in Poetry, Chapter 5
Having published my “Apology for Poetry” and much of chapters I and II of Gilbert Murray’s great work, The Classical Tradition in Poetry, I am herewith offering Chapter V, “Poetic Diction.” Murray here defends...
The Classical Tradition in Poetry, Chapter 1 [concluded]
Having published my “Apology for Poetry” in the first three posts of Tradition Restored and, most recently, the second of three comprising Chapter I of Gilbert Murray’s great work, The Classical Tradition in Poetry, I...
The Classical Tradition in Poetry, Chapter 1
Having published my “Apology for Poetry” in the last three posts, I shall herewith share selected chapters from Gilbert Murray’s great work, The Classical Tradition in Poetry, which appeared in 1927 and comprised his...
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