Tagged: William Blake

June 22, 2019

Romantic Irony (Part 3)

(Pictured: Plotinus.) I am happy to present the third post of Chapter VII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Irony,” by which the romantics stand aloof from what they consider mere rationalism and philistinism. In...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

November 30, 2018

Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 3)

(Pictured: Friedrich Nietzsche.) I am happy to present the third post of Chapter V, “Romantic Morality: The Real,” in which Irving Babbitt addresses the descent of the romantics from altruistic idealism to egoistic realism, both...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

July 27, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 6)

(Pictured: William Blake.) I am happy to present the sixth post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps...