The New Laokoon (Part 25)
I am happy to present the twenty-fifth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts,” published in 1910.
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Aeschylus (Part 2)
Here we present Part 2 of the Introduction written by P. E. More for his translation of the “Prometheus Bound” of Aeschylus, published in 1899. We have returned to our category Poetry and the Classical Tradition after having completed our presentation of More’s essay on one of the most subjective and unclassical of authors, James Joyce.
The Present Outlook (Part 1)
(Pictured: Dante.) I am happy to present the first post of the final chapter of Rousseau and Romanticism, “The Present Outlook,” in which Irving Babbitt concludes that, “[m]an realizes [the] immensity of his being...
Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 4)
“[T]o deal aesthetically with truth is an error of the first magnitude….”
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 II (Part 3)
I am happy to present the third 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...
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...
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 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...
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