An Apology for Poetry (Part 2)
The discourse on Thomistic angelology may serve to shed light on the nature of man and the consequent nature of poetry. I have considerably revised Part 2, which appears forthwith.
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The New Laokoon (Part 17)
(Pictured: Victor Hugo.) I am happy to present the seventeenth 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...
James Joyce (Part 2)
We herewith present the second post of P. E. More’s essay, “James Joyce,” the fourth of nine essays that make up More’s book On Being Human.
Romanticism and Nature (Part 5)
(Pictured: Schelling.) I am happy to present the fifth 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...
An Apology for Poetry, Part 3
An Apology for Poetry: an Aristotelean View What follows is Part 3, the concluding part, of a commentary on my long poem, “The Young Poet’s Elegy to the Court of God,” in which several...
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