An Apology for Poetry (Part 1)
Dear Reader, This post will be the first I have posted since last September. In the time since then, I have been busy about other things, including the promotion of my book, The Tragedy...
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Shelburne Essays – Wordsworth
We are now leaving the writings of Irving Babbitt and delving into the brilliant essays of Paul Elmer More. I am happy to present the first post of More’s collection, “Shelburne Essays, Seventh Series.”
The New Laokoon (Part 30)
I am happy to present the thirtieth 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...
The New Laokoon (Part 16)
I am happy to present the sixteenth post (Word Painting, con’t) of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”
The New Laokoon (Part 14)
(Pictured: Charles Beaudelaire.) I am happy to present the fourteenth post (the brief penultimate post of Chapter V) of Irving Babbitt’s book The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts, published...
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,...
Romanticism and Nature (Part 6)
(Pictured: Narcissus.) I am happy to present the sixth and final post of Chapter VIII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romanticism and Nature,” in which Irving Babbitt treats of the idolatry of outer nature, conceived...
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...
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.
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