Tagged: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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 Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

December 14, 2021

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...

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

September 14, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 12)

A man becomes un-Platonic and pseudo-mystical in direct ratio to his contempt for rationality as compared with the unconscious, the spontaneous, the instinctive.