Tuesday, April 03, 2012

The high priest of high art | TLS

The high priest of high art | TLS:

"Yet there is a profound intellectual humility in Steiner’s respect for the “tradition”, discernible in his repeated insistence that the critic is but a postman, delivering letters from the poets. As he asserts in his autobiography, Errata (1997), “no hermeneutic is equivalent to its object”."

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