Tagged: William Wordsworth

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

September 7, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 26)

I am happy to present the twenty-sixth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

September 14, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 12)

A man becomes un-Platonic and pseudo-mystical in direct ratio to his contempt for rationality as compared with the unconscious, the spontaneous, the instinctive.

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

April 6, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 3)

(Pictured: Alexander Pope.) I am happy to present the third post of Irving Babbitt’s book The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts, published in 1910, in which Babbitt followed the...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

April 7, 2019

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

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

April 4, 2017

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...