Dazzle was, of course, the very essence of the Steiner sound. The magisterial tone, the cosmopolitan content, the very assumption that the reader was as intimately familiar with the history of European literature and philosophy as he was: it all went to form the "aura" of his criticism. Names were dropped like confetti, sprinkled from […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM on March 16, 2020