This volume is the best-known and most widely discussed work of the influential scholar and critic Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), intellectual leader of the movement known as the New Humanism

I: The Terms Classic and Romantic; II: Romantic Genius; III: Romantic Imagination; IV: Romantic Morality: The Ideal; V: Romantic Morality: The Real; VI: Romantic Love; VII: Romantic Irony; VIII: Romanticism and Nature; IX: Romantic Melancholy; X: The Present Outlook