Tagged: Horace

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

April 6, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 3)

(Pictured: Alexander Pope.) I am happy to present the third 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...

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 24, 2021

(Pictured: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.) I am happy to present the first post of Irving Babbitt’s book The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts, published in 1910, in which Babbitt followed...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

May 15, 2020

The Present Outlook (Part 6)

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

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 11, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter III (Part 2)

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

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

June 7, 2017

The Classical Tradition in Poetry, Chapter 6 (Part 4)

Having published my “Apology for Poetry” and much of chapters I, II, and V of Gilbert Murray’s great work, The Classical Tradition in Poetry, I am herewith offering the fourth and concluding post of...