(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,...
(Pictured: Alfred de Vigny.) I am happy to present the fifth post of Chapter IX of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Melancholy,” in which Irving Babbitt asks, “does one become happy by being nostalgic and...
(Pictured: Alfred de Musset.) I am happy to present the sixth and final post of Chapter V, “Romantic Morality: The Real,” in which Irving Babbitt addresses the descent of the romantics from altruistic idealism...
(Pictured: Gustave Faubert.) I am happy to present the seventh (and final) 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 Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition
September 13, 2023
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