Poems
By George Santayana · Running time 02:39:37 · Single author
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About this book
George Santayana was born in Spain, educated in Boston and taught at Harvard before returning to Europe to spend the last forty years of his life writing. He is primarily known as a philosopher, his five-volume The Life of Reason being his magnus opus. But he also wrote a successful novel, The Last Puritan, as well as plays, essays and poetry. During his time at Harvard he influenced many of his student including T.S. Eliot and Robert Frost. Of these poems which he chose to collect together in this volume he says, "What I felt when I composed those verses could not have been rendered in any ot
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