Browning Archives - Tradition Restored

October 31, 2019

Romantic Melancholy (Part 1)

(Pictured: Pindar.) I am happy to present the first post of Chapter IX of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Melancholy,” in which Irving Babbitt asks, “does one become happy by being nostalgic and hyperaesthetic, by...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

September 19, 2019

Romanticism and Nature (Part 4)

I am happy to present the fourth 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 paradise where the romanticist may live free of social convention and practice revery.