Tagged: Dr. Johnson

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 6, 2023

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.”

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

May 10, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 5)

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

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

March 4, 2020

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

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 19, 2020

The Present Outlook (Part 1)

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

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

June 22, 2019

Romantic Irony (Part 3)

(Pictured: Plotinus.) I am happy to present the third post of Chapter VII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Irony,” by which the romantics stand aloof from what they consider mere rationalism and philistinism. In...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 25, 2019

Romantic Love (Part 1)

Babbitt shows that the romantic lover’s “ever-fleeting” object of desire only turns out in the end to be the lover himself in disguise.

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

September 21, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 10)

(Pictured: Antigone.) I am happy to present the tenth (and penultimate) post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

January 26, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter III (Part 1)

(Pictured: Jean de la Fontaine) I am happy to present the first post of Chapter III of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

November 29, 2017

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter II (Part 2)

I am happy to present the second 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 most thoroughgoing...