Tagged: Whitman

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

August 4, 2021

The New Laokoon (Part 10)

I am happy to present the tenth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.” This is the final installment of Chapter IV, The Theory of Spontaneity.

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

February 6, 2020

(Pictured: Faust and Mephistopheles.) I am happy to present the seventh, and final, post of Chapter IX of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Melancholy,” in which Irving Babbitt asks, “does one become happy by being...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

June 28, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 4)

(Pictured: Victor Hugo.) I am happy to present the fourth 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...