Santayana, George
Santayana, George( 1863–1952),born in Spain, was christened Jorge Ruiz de Santayana y Borrais, but always used the English form of his name after he was brought to the U.S. (1872). Reared in Boston, he graduated from Harvard (1886), and after study in Germany and England received his Ph.D. from Harvard (1889). From that year until 1912 he was professor of philosophy at that university. After 1914 he made his home in Europe, first in France and England, and thereafter in Italy.
He is known as both a philosopher and a man of letters, having begun his literary career with Sonnets and Other Verses (1894); The Sense of Beauty (1896), a treatise on aesthetics; Lucifer: A Theological Tragedy (1899, revised 1924), a play in verse; Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900); and another book of poems, A Hermit of Carmel (1901). He collected his Poems in 1923, but after the turn of the century the body of...
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