The Present Outlook (Part 1)
(Pictured: Dante.) I am happy to present the first 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...
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Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter II (Part 2)
I am happy to present the second post of Chapter II of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the most thoroughgoing...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter II (Part 1)
I am happy to present the first post of Chapter II of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the most thoroughgoing...
An Apology for Poetry, Part 2
An Apology for Poetry: an Aristotelean View What follows is Part 2 of a commentary on my long poem, “The Young Poet’s Elegy to the Court of God,” in which several years ago I...
An Apology for Poetry, Part 1
Dear Reader, this inaugural post and the two that will immediately follow it (“An Apology for Poetry,” Parts 1-3) will serve to introduce the many posts that will follow them. I intend these first...
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