George Santayana

It is important to stress that Santayana is accessible not merely stylistically—in the singing clarity of his prose—but also in terms of content. His philosophy dealt not with difficult abstractions but with matters of patent human exigency. --Roger Kimball, George Santayana , The New Criterion, February 2002, review of The Letters of George Santayana: Book One, [1868]–1909, edited by William G. Holzberger


Recommended reading:
by George Santayana at Reading Rat


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

The passivity in Santayana´s makeup, his willingness to dwell in the mind at the expense of the world, strikes Americans as a strange combination of dreaminess and asceticism that is alien to their temperament. Alien, too, is Santayana´s disdain for the idea of progress, which he derided as a destructive superstition... --Wilfred M. McClay, Remembering Santayana, The Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2001