Tagged: William Hazlitt

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

September 14, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 12)

A man becomes un-Platonic and pseudo-mystical in direct ratio to his contempt for rationality as compared with the unconscious, the spontaneous, the instinctive.

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

April 7, 2019

(Pictured: George Sand.) I am happy to present the third and concluding post of Chapter VI of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Love,” in which Irving Babbitt shows that the romantic lover’s “ever-fleeting” object of...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

April 3, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter III (Part 5)

(Pictured: August Wilhelm Schlegel.) I am happy to present the fifth post of Chapter III of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to...