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.
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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.”
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...
Romantic Melancholy (Part 7)
(Pictured: Faust and Mephistopheles.) I am happy to present the seventh, and final, post of Chapter IX of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Melancholy,” in which Irving Babbitt asks, “does one become happy by being...
Romantic Melancholy (Part 3)
(Pictured: Barbey d’Aurevilly.) I am happy to present the third post of Chapter IX of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Melancholy,” in which Irving Babbitt asks, “does one become happy by being nostalgic and hyperaesthetic,...
Romantic Irony (Part 2)
(Pictured: Saint Augustine of Hippo.) I am happy to present the second post of Chapter VII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Irony,” by which the romantics stand aloof from what they consider mere rationalism...
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...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter II (Part 5)
I am happy to present the fifth and final post of Chapter II of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the...
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