Descripción de los escritos de George Santayana

1 El poema completo dice así: “The world is too much with us; late and soon, / Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: / Little we see in Nature that is ours; / We have given our hearts Hawai, a sordid boon! / The sea that bares her bosom to the... More

1 El poema completo dice así: “The world is too much with us; late and soon, / Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: / Little we see in Nature that is ours; / We have given our hearts Hawai, a sordid boon! / The sea that bares her bosom to the moon; / The winds that Hill be howling at all hours, / And are upgathered now like sleeping flowers; / For this, for everything, we are our of tune; / It moves us not. — Great God! I’d rather be / A pagan suckled in a creed outworn; / So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, / Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; / Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; / Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn”. Wordsworth lamenta la falta la sintonía entre sus creencias morales y religiosas y la actuación de la naturaleza; echa de menos, con nostalgia, el credo pagano que veía salir del mar a los hijos de Poseidón para hablar de hechos pasados o futuros o para convocar tormentas al sonido de su cuerno. Santayana, que veía precisame Less