Tagged: the Poetics

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

March 17, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 2)

(Pictured: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.) I am happy to present the second post of Irving Babbitt’s book The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts, published in 1910, in which Babbitt followed...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 9, 2020

James Joyce (Part 4)

(Pictured: James Joyce.) We herewith present the fourth and penultimate post of P. E. More’s essay, “James Joyce,” the fourth of nine essays that make up More’s book On Being Human. Paul Elmer More...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

September 15, 2017

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter I (Part 3)

I am happy to present the third post of Chapter I of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the most thoroughgoing...

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

January 10, 2017

The Classical Tradition in Poetry, Chapter 1 (cont’d)

Having published my “Apology for Poetry” in the first three posts and, most recently, the first of three comprising Chapter I of Gilbert Murray’s great work, The Classical Tradition in Poetry, I present the...