July 1, 1953
George Santayana: Natural Historian of Symbolic Forms
The death of George Santayana has not been the occasion for any searching reappraisal of his work. He is ignored by the philosophical cognosenti. Nor are his more serious works […]
July 1, 1953
This May Be the Book
FEELING AND FORM. By Susanne K. Langer. Scribner’s. $7. For one thing this is a thoroughly satisfactory essay about Art and the arts. Even if it were no more than […]
July 1, 1953
The Art of Yeats: Affirmative Capability
I. VARIETIES OF THE IMAGE Goethe remarked, in a phrase that Yeats liked to quote, that the poet must know all philosophy, but keep it out of his work. Yeats’s notion […]