Author: David Lane

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

July 27, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 25)

I am happy to present the twenty-fifth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts,” published in 1910.

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

June 22, 2022

I am happy to present the twenty-fourth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.” With this post we begin Chapter VII, the concluding chapter of the book.

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

May 21, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 23)

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

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

March 30, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 22)

I am happy to present the twenty-second 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

March 10, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 21)

I am happy to present the twenty-first post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.” This post inaugurates the sub-section “Programme Music.”

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 16, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 20)

I am happy to present the twentieth 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

January 27, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 19)

(Pictured: Rudyard Kipling.) I am happy to present the nineteenth 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 Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

January 7, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 18)

I am happy to present the eighteenth 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

December 14, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 17)

(Pictured: Victor Hugo.) I am happy to present the seventeenth 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...