The Present Outlook (Part 1)
(Pictured: Dante.) I am happy to present the first post of the final chapter of Rousseau and Romanticism, “The Present Outlook,” in which Irving Babbitt concludes that, “[m]an realizes [the] immensity of his being...
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Romanticism and Nature (Part 4)
I am happy to present the fourth post of Chapter VIII of “Rousseau and Romanticism,” “Romanticism and Nature,” in which Irving Babbitt treats of the idolatry of outer nature, conceived as a paradise where the romanticist may live free of social convention and practice revery.
Romanticism and Nature (Part 3)
(Pictured: Wordsworth.) I am happy to present the third post of Chapter VIII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romanticism and Nature,” in which Irving Babbitt treats of the idolatry of outer nature, conceived as a...
Romantic Irony (Part 3)
(Pictured: Plotinus.) I am happy to present the third post of Chapter VII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Irony,” by which the romantics stand aloof from what they consider mere rationalism and philistinism. In...
Romantic Love (Part 2)
(Pictured: Antigone.) I am happy to present the second post of Chapter VI of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Love,” in which Irving Babbitt shows that the romantic lover’s “ever-fleeting” object of desire only turns...
Romantic Love (Part 1)
Babbitt shows that the romantic lover’s “ever-fleeting” object of desire only turns out in the end to be the lover himself in disguise.
Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 2)
(Pictured: Bismarck.) I am happy to present the second post of Chapter V, “Romantic Morality: The Real,” in which Babbitt addresses the descent of the romantics from altruistic idealism to egoistic realism, both representing...
Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 1)
(Pictured: Shelley.) Having provided a change of pace in the previous post with Mr. Mark Signorelli’s “Poetry and the Common Language,” we shall now return to Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism, presenting...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 11)
(Pictured: Lord Byron.) I am happy to present the eleventh (and final) post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 7)
(Pictured: Plato.) I am happy to present the seventh 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 the...
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