Tagged: A. W. Schlegel

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 4, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 10)

I am happy to present the tenth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.” This is the final installment of Chapter IV, The Theory of Spontaneity.

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

June 28, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 8)

Our previous post concluded Babbitt’s treatment of the neo-classical confusion of the arts; with this post we begin his treatment of the romantic confusion of the arts.

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 3, 2019

Romanticism and Nature (Part 5)

(Pictured: Schelling.) I am happy to present the fifth 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...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

April 3, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter III (Part 5)

(Pictured: August Wilhelm Schlegel.) I am happy to present the fifth post of Chapter III of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to...