Edmond Rostand Archives - Tradition Restored

October 3, 2019

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...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

March 15, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter III (Part 4)

(Transcendentalism: Looking Up the Yosemite Valley by A. Bierstadt) I am happy to present the fourth post of Chapter III of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to...