Interpretations of Poetry and Religion

book by Santayana

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George Santayana's Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900) explores the vital connection between aesthetic sensibilities and moral faculties. The book, particularly its analysis of Robert Browning's poetry, serves as a model for understanding how poetry and religion can be interpreted through a lens of shared human experience and ideals. Santayana, a Spanish-American philosopher, poet, and humanist, made significant contributions to aesthetics and literary criticism, often examining the underlying principles that shape our judgments of beauty and meaning.12

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…illustrated in Santayana’s next book, Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900), particularly in the discussion of the poetry of Robert Browning, which is a model of its kind.
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…illustrated in Santayana’s next book, Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900), particularly in the discussion of the poetry of Robert Browning, which is a model of its kind.
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objective correlative
…upon by George Santayana in Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900). Santayana suggested that correlative objects could not only express a poet’s feeling but also evoke it. Critics have argued that Eliot’s idea was influenced, as was much of Eliot’s work, by the poetics of Ezra Pound and that the…
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…upon by George Santayana in Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900). Santayana suggested that correlative objects could not only express a poet’s feeling but also evoke it. Critics have argued that Eliot’s idea was influenced, as was much of Eliot’s work, by the poetics of Ezra Pound and that the…
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