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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 Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

March 17, 2021

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

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 24, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 1)

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

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

February 5, 2021

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 Classical Tradition

January 20, 2021

Aeschylus (Part 4)

We here present the brief Part 4 of the Introduction written by P. E. More for his translation of the Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus, published in 1899.

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

January 1, 2021

Aeschylus (Part 3)

We here present the brief Part 3 of the Introduction written by P. E. More for his translation of the “Prometheus Bound” of Aeschylus, published in 1899.

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

December 5, 2020

Aeschylus (Part 2)

Here we present Part 2 of the Introduction written by P. E. More for his translation of the “Prometheus Bound” of Aeschylus, published in 1899. We have returned to our category Poetry and the Classical Tradition after having completed our presentation of More’s essay on one of the most subjective and unclassical of authors, James Joyce.

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

November 12, 2020

Aeschylus (Part 1)

(Pictured: Aeschylus.) The following is the Introduction written by P. E. More for his translation of the Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus, published in 1899. We are therefore returning to Poetry and the Classical Tradition...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 26, 2020

James Joyce (Part 5)

(Pictured: James Joyce.) We herewith present the fifth and final post of P. E. More’s essay, “James Joyce,” the fourth of nine essays that make up More’s book On Being Human. Paul Elmer More...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 9, 2020

James Joyce (Part 4)

(Pictured: James Joyce.) We herewith present the fourth and penultimate post of P. E. More’s essay, “James Joyce,” the fourth of nine essays that make up More’s book On Being Human. Paul Elmer More...