Interpretations of poetry and religion
By: by George Santayana
Publisher: BiblioLife
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781103650064
Subjects: Poetry; Religion; Literature; History and criticism; Aesthetics
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924.
Table of contents: title: 1. Understanding, imagination, and mysticism; title: 2. The Homeric hymns; title: 3. The dissolution of paganism; title: 4. The poertry of Christian dogma; title: 5. Platonic love in some Italian poets; title: 6. The absence of religion in Shakespeare; title: 7. The poetry of barbarism; title: 8. Emerson; title: 9. A religion of disillusion; title: 10. The elements and function of poetry.