Word: santayana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George Santayana (1863-), who, though born in Spain and now living in England, long studied and taught at Harvard. He has been called an "immaculate materialist." He accepts universal mechanism as he accepts his friends' names, but finds it capable of such infinite variation, color, beauty, that it satisfies his poet's soul, just as the Catholic Church moves him esthetically without for an instant compelling his belief. He expresses the vestiges of Classicism in the U. S., modernizing Aristotle...
...opposite spirit in modern poetry is exemplified in George Santayana. Here we have a man who in spite of the difficulties of his environment determined that he was going to live in this word and not apart from it, and who world and not apart from it, and who has succeeded in pushing up through those difficulties. The essential vigor of his life and character are reflected in his poetry, which I believe will be read long after Sandburg has faded into obscurity...
...little absurd and rather amusing, while the lowbrow is devastating to all that might be fine in our life. The glee club is doing an essential work in the spirit of those lovers of the best men like Charles Eliot Norton and William James, like Royce and Wendell and Santayana--who have created the noblest of Harvard traditions: and it is sad and strange to see Harvard graduates who are willing not only to refuse such work their support but actually to impede it by higgling criticisms because it does not devote itself to ministering to their infantile fixations...
LUCIFER - George Santayana - Dunster House ($15.00). For the richest shelves of bookstores, for the glossiest library tables, for the nicest eyes and the longest thin fingers, some artisans in papers and inks and types have redecorated an older poet's younger pantheon. When the veils are drawn, there is crimson chiseling. When the angels speak, their celestial words are of the blue of Heaven. The rarified text - five acts of lofty verse - is for high thinkers, telling the tragedy of imperious Lucifer, who sought to sustain his soul by tugging at his spiritual bootstraps...
Under Beebe's supervision it is announced that the Bookshelf will broaden out both physically and intellectually. For the forthcoming March number there is an unusual number of distinguished contributions. Among these are a review of Amy Lowell's "Keats" by D. W. McCord '21, a review of Santayana's "Lucifer" by Robert Hillyer '22, and a review of Upton Sinclair's "Mammonart" by Beebe...