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George Steiner: The high priest of high art

George Steiner’s profoundly European sensibility has rarely been more evident than in this series of meditations on what Maurice Blanchot calls the “exultant antagonism” between poetry and thought (more...)

Posted by Mark Thwaite on Thursday 29 March 2012 - Comments (0)
Tags: literary criticism, poetry

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