The Letters of George Santayana, Book 5: 1933-1936 PDF
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Santayanajkt 3/22/04 2:02 PM Page 1 S THE LETTERS OF a nt GEORGE SANTAYANA a THE WORKS OF GEORGE SANTAYANA ya T L BOOK FIVE n HE ETTERS OF 1933–1936 CRITICALEDITION a Edited and with an Introduction by Herman J. Saatkamp Jr.,General Editor C T G S William G. Holzberger William G. Holzberger,Textual Editor r EORGE ANTAYANA i H t i c E George Santayana was a philosopher, poet, critic of culture and literature, and best- a During the period covered by this book, George selling novelist. Although he was born in Spain and lived the last forty years of his l E L BOOK FIVE Santayana had settled permanently in Rome. His life in Europe, Santayana always insisted that he be considered an American author d E best-selling novel, The Last Puritan, was published i 1933–1936 t T in London in 1935 and in the United States in 1936, and philosopher. He was educated in the United States, and he taught for more than i o T where it was chosen as a Book-of-the-Month Club twenty years at Harvard University. Santayana’s correspondence was extensive, par- n E selection. In 1936 Santayana became one of the few ticularly during his remarkably productive European years. Until now, not even one- R philosophers ever to appear on the front cover of Edited and with an Introduction by quarter of his letters have been published. Daniel Cory, Santayana’s friend and first V S Time magazine. His growing influence was evi- literary executor, thought he had collected the great majority of them when he pub- ol O William G. Holzberger denced further by two other 1936 publications, lished his two biographical letters’volumes (1955 and 1963), but many more manu- u Obiter Scripta: Lectures, Essays, and Reviews and m F script letters have been found since then. Taken together, the letters complement e Philosophy of Santayana:Selections from the Works G of George Santayana.Also during this year the first Santayana’s autobiographical writings (Persons and Placesand The Last Puritan) and V six volumes of the fifteen-volume Triton Edition (a E clarify many issues in his personal,public,and philosophical life. O limited, signed collector’s edition of Santayana’s work, which included significant new prefaces for B R The letters comprise Volume V of the Works of George Santayana. They are divided o each volume) were published by Scribner’s. G chronologically as follows: o Santayana continued work on The Realm of Truth k E and The Realm of Spirit, as well as his autobiogra- F Book One,[1868]–1909 iv S phy,Persons and Places. e A The book includes letters to Wendell T. Bush, Book Two,1910–1920 , Henry Seidel Canby, Curt John Ducasse, Max Book Three,1921–1927 1 N 9 Forrester Eastman, Sidney Hook, Horace Meyer T Book Four,1928–1932 3 3 A Kallen, Corliss Lamont, Ralph Barton Perry, Book Five,1933–1936 – Y William Lyon Phelps, and John Herman Randall. A 1 Book Six,1937–1940 9 A number of the letters comment on his contempo- Book Seven,1941–1947 3 N raries,such as John Dewey,T. S. Eliot,G. E. Moore, 6 Ezra Pound,and Bertrand Russell. Book Eight,1948–1952 A William G. Holzberger is Professor of English The MIT Press Emeritus at Bucknell University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology T W G S , Volume V HE ORKS OF EORGE ANTAYANA Cambridge,Massachusetts 02142 Edited by http://mitpress.mit.edu ,!7IA2G2-bjejah!:t;K;k;K;k William G. Holzberger and Herman J. Saatkamp Jr. 0-262-19490-2 The Works of George Santayana Volume V, Book Five Herman J. Saatkamp Jr., General Editor William G. Holzberger, Textual Editor Marianne S. Wokeck, Editor Kristine W. Frost, Associate Editor Johanna E. Resler, Assistant Editor To the memory of Daniel and Margot Cory “In regard to a fancy title for the limited edition of my works, would Triton Edition be at all the sort of thing required? ...What suggested the word to me is that my windows in Rome look down on the Fontana del Tritone and Via del Tritone. The Triton, by Bernini, is well known, and might be reproduced for a frontispiece or paper-cover.” —from Santayana’s letter to John Hall Wheelock of 23 June 1936 Original photograph, courtesy of Herman J. Saatkamp Jr., has been enhanced with his permission. The Letters of George Santayana Book Five, 1933—1936 Edited and with an Introduction by William G. Holzberger The MITPress, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England This publication has been supported by the National Endowment for theHumanities, a federal agency which supports the study of such fields as history, philosophy, literature, and languages. A grant provided in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Kendall Berry of Blytheville, Arkansas, has provided significant support for the publication of the letters; in conjunction, additional funding comes from John and Shirley Lachs. The endpapers are facsimiles of a letter from Santayana to Max Forrester Eastman dated 28 November 1936. Publication is courtesy of the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington. A selected edition of The Letters of George Santayanawas published by Scribner’s in 1955. Other letters written by Santayana have been published previously in books and period- icals. All information concerning previous publications is included in the textual notes. © 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Introduction,” William G. Holzberger. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopy, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this pro- hibition. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Santayana, George, 1863–1952. [Correspondence] The letters of George Santayana / G. Santayana; edited and with an introduction by William G. Holzberger,—Santayana ed. p. cm.—(The works of George Santayana; v.5) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-262-19479-1 (bk.4:hc:alk.paper) 1. Santayana, George, 1863–1952—Correspondence. 2. Philosophers—United States— Correspondence. I. Holzberger, William G. II. Title. B945.S2 1986 vol. 5 [B945.S24 A4] 191—dc21 00—048978 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standards for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48 1984.(cid:123)∞™ The Santayana Edition Herman J. Saatkamp Jr., General Editor William G. Holzberger, Textual Editor Marianne S. Wokeck, Editor Kristine W. Frost, Associate Editor Johanna E. Resler, Assistant Editor Editorial Board Willard Arnett Douglas M. MacDonald Hugh J. Dawson John M. Michelsen Morris Grossman Andrew J. Reck Angus Kerr-Lawson Beth J. Singer John Lachs T. L. S. Sprigge Richard C. Lyon Henny Wenkart Consultants Jo Ann Boydston Irving Singer Robert S. Sturgis The Works of George Santayana I Persons and Places: Fragments of Autobiography,1986 II The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Æsthetic Theory,1988 III Interpretations of Poetry and Religion,1990 IV The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel,1994 V The Letters of George Santayana, Book One,2001 The Letters of George Santayana, Book Two,2002 The Letters of George Santayana, Book Three,2002 The Letters of George Santayana, Book Four, 2003 The Letters of George Santayana, Book Five,2003 Contents Book Five, 1933–1936 Preface xi Acknowledgments xxvii Introduction by William G. Holzberger xli List of Letters lxvii LETTERS 3 EDITORIALAPPENDIX Textual Commentary 427 Short-Title List 443 Textual Notes 447 Report of Line-End Hyphenation 515 Chronology 517 Addresses 535 Manuscript Locations 549 List of Recipients 553 List of Unlocated Letters 557 INDEX 561
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