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Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

June 22, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 24)

I am happy to present the twenty-fourth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.” With this post we begin Chapter VII, the concluding chapter of the book.

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 24, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter III (Part 3)

(Pictured: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) I am happy to present the third post of Chapter III of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced...

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

December 16, 2016

An Apology for Poetry, Part 3

An Apology for Poetry: an Aristotelean View What follows is Part 3, the concluding part, of a commentary on my long poem, “The Young Poet’s Elegy to the Court of God,” in which several...