Tagged: Cardinal Newman

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

December 4, 2025

Shelburne Essays: William Morris (Part 1)

I am happy to present the first post of More’s essay “William Morris,” one of the chapters in his “Shelburne Essays, Seventh Series.”

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

May 15, 2020

The Present Outlook (Part 6)

(Pictured: Irving Babbitt.) I am happy to present the sixth and final post of the final chapter of Rousseau and Romanticism, “The Present Outlook,” in which Irving Babbitt concludes that, “[m]an realizes [the] immensity...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 6, 2019

Romanticism and Nature (Part 1)

(Pictured: Boileau.) I am happy to present the first 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...