Tagged: Don Juan

March 15, 2019

Romantic Love (Part 2)

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

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

April 20, 2017

The Classical Tradition in Poetry, Chapter 6 (Part 1)

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