Sir Joshua Reynolds Archives - Tradition Restored

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

June 22, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 24)

I am happy to present the twenty-fourth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.” With this post we begin Chapter VII, the concluding chapter of the book.

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 24, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 1)

(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...