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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in George Santayana's philosophical and aesthetic thought
- Readers who enjoy contemplative, philosophical English poetry
- Learners who need public-domain English poetry material for excerpting and study
- Poetry enthusiasts hoping to broaden their reading in American literature
Not a good fit for
- Beginner English readers who need a Chinese translation alongside the text
- Readers who prefer strongly lyrical or narrative poetry
- Readers expecting detailed annotations and background introductions
Reading tips
- Read a small selection of poems each time and allow time to savor the philosophical threads.
- Read alongside Santayana's philosophical works to appreciate the consistency of his thought.
- Keep a notebook to excerpt favorite lines for repeated recitation.
- Reading aloud helps capture the English rhyme and rhythm, and suits a quiet setting.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
George Santayana (Santayana, George, 1863–1952) was a Spanish-American philosopher, poet and literary critic. The library holds eleven of his works, spanning philosophy, aesthetics and literary criticism. The Life of Reason, subtitled The Phases of Human Progress, sets out his naturalistic philosophy. The Sense of Beauty develops an aesthetic theory of the nature and forms of beauty, while Three Philosophical Poets discusses Lucretius, Dante and Goethe, blending poetry with philosophy. Soliloquies in England, and Later Soliloquies, Character and Opinion in the United States, Egotism in German Philosophy and Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy display his cross-cultural observation and essayistic style. His prose is clear and elegant, combining speculative depth with literary quality, and has had a lasting influence on modern philosophy and criticism. Public information is limited, so biographical details are omitted here.
