Interpretations of Poetry and Religion
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Interpretations of Poetry and Religion is the third volume in a new critical edition of the complete works of George Santayana that restores Santayana's original text and provides important new scholarly information.Published in the spring of 1900, Interpretations of Poetry and Religion was George Santayana's first book of critical prose. It developed his view that "poetry is called religion when it intervenes in life, and religion, when it merely supervenes upon life, is seen to be nothing but poetry." This statement and the point of view it espoused contributed significantly to the debate be...
Chapters (15)
- INTERPRETATIONS
- OF
- POETRY AND RELIGION
- GEORGE SANTAYANA
- PREFACE
- I UNDERSTANDING, IMAGINATION, AND MYSTICISM
- II THE HOMERIC HYMNS
- III THE DISSOLUTION OF PAGANISM
- IV THE POETRY OF CHRISTIAN DOGMA
- V PLATONIC LOVE IN SOME ITALIAN POETS
- VI THE ABSENCE OF RELIGION IN SHAKESPEARE
- VII THE POETRY OF BARBARISM
- VIII EMERSON
- IX A RELIGION OF DISILLUSION
- X THE ELEMENTS AND FUNCTION OF POETRY
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