The New Laokoon
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The New Laokoon is a critical work by Irving Babbitt that examines the relationship between literature and the other arts, arguing for classical restraint and moral purpose in artistic expression.
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| The New Laokoon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1472311 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The New Laokoon Context triple: [Irving Babbitt, notableWork, The New Laokoon]
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A.
The Apotheosis of Homer
The Apotheosis of Homer is a neoclassical painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres that idealizes the ancient Greek poet Homer enthroned and venerated by great figures from art and literature.
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B.
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences is an influential 1750 philosophical essay by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that argues the progress of arts and sciences has corrupted human morality rather than improved it.
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The Progress of Poesy
The Progress of Poesy is an 18th-century Pindaric ode by Thomas Gray that celebrates the power and evolution of poetry from ancient Greece to modern times.
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D.
Analytic of the Beautiful
Analytic of the Beautiful is the section of Immanuel Kant’s aesthetic theory that systematically examines judgments of beauty, their subjective universality, and their relation to feeling and cognition.
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The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus is a dramatic Baroque painting by Peter Paul Rubens depicting the mythological abduction of Leucippus’s daughters by the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The New Laokoon Target entity description: The New Laokoon is a critical work by Irving Babbitt that examines the relationship between literature and the other arts, arguing for classical restraint and moral purpose in artistic expression.
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A.
The Apotheosis of Homer
The Apotheosis of Homer is a neoclassical painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres that idealizes the ancient Greek poet Homer enthroned and venerated by great figures from art and literature.
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B.
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences is an influential 1750 philosophical essay by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that argues the progress of arts and sciences has corrupted human morality rather than improved it.
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C.
The Progress of Poesy
The Progress of Poesy is an 18th-century Pindaric ode by Thomas Gray that celebrates the power and evolution of poetry from ancient Greece to modern times.
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D.
Analytic of the Beautiful
Analytic of the Beautiful is the section of Immanuel Kant’s aesthetic theory that systematically examines judgments of beauty, their subjective universality, and their relation to feeling and cognition.
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E.
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus is a dramatic Baroque painting by Peter Paul Rubens depicting the mythological abduction of Leucippus’s daughters by the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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critical work ⓘ |
| advocates |
classical humanism
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moral discipline in artistic creation ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Harvard University ⓘ |
| author | Irving Babbitt ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
critique of romanticism
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ethical standards in art ⓘ humanism in literature ⓘ restraint in artistic form ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| critiques |
aestheticism divorced from ethics
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excessive emotionalism in art ⓘ |
| genre |
aesthetic theory
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literary criticism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
essays on literature
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essays on music ⓘ essays on painting ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The New Laokoon ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century conservative literary criticism
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debates on ethics and aesthetics in the early 20th century ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
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classical Greek aesthetics ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
classicism in art
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moral purpose in artistic expression ⓘ relationship between literature and the other arts ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
anti-romantic criticism
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classical liberal humanism ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
argues for classical restraint in art
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criticizes romantic and sentimental excess in art ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
New Humanism movement
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linked to:
New Humanism
debates on modernism in the arts ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
scholarship on American literary criticism
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studies in comparative literature ⓘ |
| workOf | Irving Babbitt ⓘ |
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