In The Poetry of Thought, George Steiner announces his theme variously as “the dialogue I am trying to listen in on as between metaphysics and literature,” “the quarrel at once bitter and fraternal between philosophers and poets,” “the commerce between poetics and philosophy,” and the fusion of “the poetry of thought and the thought of poetry.” He also quotes He (...)
May 18, 2012
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Altitude Sickness
The Poetry of ThoughtFrom Hellenism to CelanGeorge SteinerNew Directions, $24.95, 192 pp.
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