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Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

May 9, 2023

The New Laokoon (Part 32)

I am happy to present the thirty-second—and final—post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts,” published in 1910.

Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

January 7, 2022

The New Laokoon (Part 18)

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

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

November 5, 2018

Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 1)

(Pictured: Shelley.) Having provided a change of pace in the previous post with Mr. Mark Signorelli’s “Poetry and the Common Language,” we shall now return to Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism, presenting...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

May 3, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter III (Part 7)

(Pictured: Gustave Faubert.) I am happy to present the seventh (and final) post of Chapter III of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

April 19, 2018

Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter III (Part 6)

(Pictured: Honoré de Balzac.) I am happy to present the sixth (and penultimate) post of Chapter III of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is...