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.
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Shelley (Part 4)
The fourth and concluding post of P. E. More’s essay, “Shelley,” which appears in the seventh volume of “The Shelburne Essays.”
Romantic Melancholy (Part 2)
(Pictured: Chateaubriand.) I am happy to present the second 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...
Romanticism and Nature (Part 1)
(Pictured: Boileau.) I am happy to present the first 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...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter I (Part 4)
I am happy to present the fourth post of Chapter I of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the most thoroughgoing...
The Classical Tradition in Poetry, Chapter 5 (Conclusion)
Having published my “Apology for Poetry” and much of chapters I and II of Gilbert Murray’s great work, The Classical Tradition in Poetry, I am herewith offering the concluding post representing Chapter V, “Poetic...
The Classical Tradition in Poetry, Chapter 5
Having published my “Apology for Poetry” and much of chapters I and II of Gilbert Murray’s great work, The Classical Tradition in Poetry, I am herewith offering Chapter V, “Poetic Diction.” Murray here defends...
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