This penultimate quantity of Santayana's letters chronicles Santayana's existence in the course of a tough time--the warfare years and the speedy postwar interval. the arrival of global conflict II left Santayana remoted in Rome, and the problems of wartime shuttle throughout borders pressured him to desert plans to maneuver to extra agreeable destinations in Switzerland or Spain. in the course of those years, Santayana lived in one room in a nursing domestic run through the "Blue Sisters" of the Little corporation of Mary in Rome, the place, throughout the iciness months, he did a lot of his writing in mattress (wearing well-mended gloves) which will remain hot. And but, regardless of wartime deprivations, sickness, and previous age (he used to be seventy seven in 1941), Santayana used to be remarkably efficient, finishing either his autobiography individuals and locations and the belief of Christ within the Gospels: or God in guy, and all yet finishing Dominations and Powers. He confided to at least one correspondent that he had "never been extra at peace or extra happy."The 8 books of The Letters of George Santayana assemble over 3,000 letters, a lot of that have been chanced on within the fifty years given that Santayana's dying. Letters in e-book Seven are written to such correspondents as his pal and protégée Daniel Cory, his monetary supervisor and inheritor George Sturgis, and the yankee poet Robert Lowell. The correspondence with Lowell--which all started while the more youthful author despatched Santayana a duplicate of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Lord Weary's Castle--signals a big new friendship, which turned a resource of love and highbrow engagement in Santayana's ultimate years.
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