Tagged: Charles Beaudelaire

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 15, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 14)

(Pictured: Charles Beaudelaire.) I am happy to present the fourteenth post (the brief penultimate post of Chapter V) of Irving Babbitt’s book The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts, published...

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...