La poesía desarraigada de "Sonnets, 1883-1893" de George Santayana

• Autores: Cayetano Estébanez
• Localización: ES: Revista de filología inglesa, ISSN 0210-9689, Nº. 17, 1993, págs. 99-108
• Idioma: español
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  • In this paper, Santayana's "Sonnets, 1883-1893" are examined in the light of his personal situation, aesthetic convictions and cultural tradition. As the author points out, these early sonnets are his "philosophy in the making". They reveal the anguishing process of abandoning the old security of his religious faith to embrace nature in a kind of mystical materialism. The poems also express the conflicting duality between the appearance of the material world, in continuous flux, and the authentic reality of the essences. Finally, in these sonnets of "marmoreal preciosity" and subtle stylistic architecture there are found traces of the main currents of the cultural tradition that converge in Santayana.