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Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

January 7, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 18)

I am happy to present the eighteenth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 4, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 10)

I am happy to present the tenth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.” This is the final installment of Chapter IV, The Theory of Spontaneity.

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

April 22, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 4)

I am happy to present the fourth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

November 9, 2017

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter II (Part 1)

I am happy to present the first 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...

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

July 19, 2017

The Classical Tradition in Poetry, Chapter VII (Part 3)

Having published my “Apology for Poetry” and much of chapters I, II, V, and VI of Gilbert Murray’s great work, The Classical Tradition in Poetry, I am herewith offering the third of three posts...