Lemaître Archives - Tradition Restored

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

November 14, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 28)

(Pictured: Benedetto Croce.) I am happy to present the twenty-eighth 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 Romantic Tradition

June 1, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 2)

(Pictured: Denis Diderot.) I am happy to present the second 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...