Tagged: Shelley

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

September 13, 2023

Wordsworth (Part 3)

Having left the writings of Irving Babbitt, we are delving into the essays of Paul Elmer More. I am happy to present now the third post of More’s collection, “Shelburne Essays, Seventh Series.”

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 8, 2023

Shelburne Essays: William Wordsworth (Part 2)

Having left the writings of Irving Babbitt, we are delving into the essays of Paul Elmer More. I am happy to present now the second post of More’s collection, “Shelburne Essays, Seventh Series.”

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

March 10, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 21)

I am happy to present the twenty-first post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.” This post inaugurates the sub-section “Programme Music.”

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

February 5, 2021

Aeschylus (Part 5)

We here present the final part (Part 5) of the Introduction written by P. E. More for his translation of the “Prometheus Bound” of Aeschylus, published in 1899.

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

July 25, 2020

Shelley (Part 4)

The fourth and concluding post of P. E. More’s essay, “Shelley,” which appears in the seventh volume of “The Shelburne Essays.”

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

July 5, 2020

Shelley (Part 3)

(Pictured: John Milton.) We herewith present the third of the (now) four posts comprising P. E. More’s essay, “Shelley,” which appears in the seventh volume of The Shelburne Essays. Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) was an American journalist, critic, essayist, and Christian apologist.

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

June 19, 2020

Shelley (Part 2)

(Pictured: Elizabeth Hitchener) We herewith present the second of the three posts comprising P. E. More’s essay, “Shelley,” which appears in the seventh volume of The Shelburne Essays. Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) was an...

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

May 15, 2020

The Present Outlook (Part 6)

(Pictured: Irving Babbitt.) I am happy to present the sixth and final post of the final chapter of Rousseau and Romanticism, “The Present Outlook,” in which Irving Babbitt concludes that, “[m]an realizes [the] immensity...