George Santayana
Author
Publisher
Harvard University
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The present volume is composed, with a few additions, of six lectures read at Columbia University in February, 1910, and repeated in April of the same year, at the University of Wisconsin. These lectures, in turn, were based on a regular course which I had been giving for some time at Harvard College. Though produced under such learned auspices, my book can make no great claims to learning. It contains the impressions of an amateur, the appreciations...
Author
Publisher
Charles Scribner and Sons
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
This is a Project Gutenberg edition released in 2015.
From Preface:
The outbreak of war in the year 1914 found me by chance in England, and there I remained, chiefly at Oxford, until the day of the peace. During those five years, in rambles to Iffley and Sandford, to Godstow and Wytham, to the hospitable eminence of Chilswell, to Wood Eaton or Nuneham or Abingdon or Stanton Harcourt,Crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hithe, these Soliloquies...
Author
Publisher
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
This is a Project Gutenberg edition released in 2015.
From Preface:
The following volume is composed of a number of papers written at various times and already partially printed; they are now revised and gathered together in the hope that they may lead the reader, from somewhat different points of approach, to a single idea. This idea is that religion and poetry are identical in essence, and differ merely in the way in which they are attached to practical...