Tagged: Alexander Pope

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

September 21, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 10)

(Pictured: Antigone.) I am happy to present the tenth (and penultimate) post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to...