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(In a review of Steiner's book by Michael Dirda of the Washington Post ) 55.
Steiner knows his Shakespeare, and Shakespeare is no Dichter . The work is too teeming, too multiform; it lacks the felt force of either the presence or absence of God.
brought on by computers, by planetary electronic exchanges, by 'cyber-space' and (soon) 'virtual reality,' " as Steiner puts it in his introduction, has all but brought this particular sense of presence to extinction.
Without ever calling Shakespeare's linguistic greatness into question, Steiner suggests an alternative requirement for true greatness, that comprehended in the German term Dichter , which carries certain lofty notions of witness and moral responsibility.
Advancing example after example, measuring reputations--those of composers Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter, say, against those of Stravinsky and Schoenberg--Steiner insists that America has produced very little that can stand up to the intellectual or artistic achievements of Europe.