Tagged: Ernest Renan

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 Romantic Tradition

January 22, 2020

(Pictured: George Sand.) I am happy to present the sixth post of Chapter IX of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Melancholy,” in which Irving Babbitt asks, “does one become happy by being nostalgic and hyperaesthetic,...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 17, 2019

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...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

July 23, 2019

Romantic Irony (Part 5)

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