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Poetry and the Classical Tradition

Aeschylus (Part 5)

We here present the final part (Part 5) of the Introduction written by P. E. More for his translation of the “Prometheus Bound” of Aeschylus, published in 1899.

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

The Present Outlook (Part 4)

I am happy to present the fourth post of the final chapter of Rousseau and Romanticism, “The Present Outlook,” in which Irving Babbitt concludes that, “[m]an realizes [the] immensity of his being . . . only in so far as he ceases to be the thrall of his own ego. This human breadth he achieves not by throwing off but by taking on limitations, and what he limits is above all his imagination. ”

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

Romantic Melancholy (Part 4)

(Pictured: Huysmans.) I am happy to present the fourth post of Chapter IX of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Melancholy,” in which Irving Babbitt asks, “does one become happy by being nostalgic and hyperaesthetic, by...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

Romanticism and Nature (Part 4)

I am happy to present the fourth post of Chapter VIII of “Rousseau and Romanticism,” “Romanticism and Nature,” in which Irving Babbitt treats of the idolatry of outer nature, conceived as a paradise where the romanticist may live free of social convention and practice revery.

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