Tagged: Hector Berlioz

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

March 10, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 21)

I am happy to present the twenty-first post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.” This post inaugurates the sub-section “Programme Music.”

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 1, 2019

Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 6)

(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...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 23, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 8)

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