Poems
Author: first_name: George
last_name: Santayana
Language: English
Year: 1922

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.<br><br>Of these poems which he chose to collect tog