Romantic Irony (Part I)
(Pictured: Ludwig Tieck.) I am happy to present the first post of Chapter VII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Irony,” by which the romantics stand aloof from what they consider mere rationalism and philistinism....
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Romantic Love (Part 3)
(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...
Romantic Love (Part 2)
(Pictured: Antigone.) I am happy to present the second post of Chapter VI of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Love,” in which Irving Babbitt shows that the romantic lover’s “ever-fleeting” object of desire only turns...
Romantic Love (Part 1)
Babbitt shows that the romantic lover’s “ever-fleeting” object of desire only turns out in the end to be the lover himself in disguise.
Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 6)
(Pictured: Alfred de Musset.) I am happy to present the sixth and final post of Chapter V, “Romantic Morality: The Real,” in which Irving Babbitt addresses the descent of the romantics from altruistic idealism...
Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 5)
(Pictured: Robert Browning.) I am happy to present the fifth post of Chapter V, “Romantic Morality: The Real,” in which Irving Babbitt addresses the descent of the romantics from altruistic idealism to egoistic realism,...
Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 4)
“[T]o deal aesthetically with truth is an error of the first magnitude….”
Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 3)
(Pictured: Friedrich Nietzsche.) I am happy to present the third post of Chapter V, “Romantic Morality: The Real,” in which Irving Babbitt addresses the descent of the romantics from altruistic idealism to egoistic realism, both...
Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 2)
(Pictured: Bismarck.) I am happy to present the second post of Chapter V, “Romantic Morality: The Real,” in which Babbitt addresses the descent of the romantics from altruistic idealism to egoistic realism, both representing...
Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 1)
(Pictured: Shelley.) Having provided a change of pace in the previous post with Mr. Mark Signorelli’s “Poetry and the Common Language,” we shall now return to Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism, presenting...
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