A Comparative Study of Literary Thoughts between T.S.Eliot and George Santayana
George Santayana,a philosopher,aesthete,and poet,was T.S.Eliot's teacher at Harvard and one of his early mentors in literature.Santayana not only helped Eliot out of the dilemma in ontological cognition but also greatly contributed to the change of Eliot's early poetic style and the maturation of his creative vision.Eliot inherited part of Santayana's liter-ary legacy,aligning with his mentor in producing philosophical connotations in poetry,devel-oping the objectification of poetry,and borrowing from Dante's poetic art.At the same time,Eliot creatively incorporated and surpassed Santayana's literary ideas while assimilating them.In short,Santayana made an important yet often overlooked contribution to Eliot's emergence as a central figure in the modernist movement.
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