Tagged: William James

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 9, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 27)

I am happy to present the twenty-seventh post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

April 30, 2020

(Pictured: Confucius.) I am happy to present the fifth 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...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

October 5, 2018

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...