Tagged: Romantic Irony

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...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

June 3, 2019

Romantic Irony (Part 2)

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

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

April 26, 2019

Romantic Irony (Part I)

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