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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.
In a recent BBC Symposium on the ethics of genetic engineering [October 22, 1989], George Steiner, the Oxford pundit and master of the mandarin style, took the negative view, largely because the margin for error was too great.
This statement harks back to a famous 1958 essay by the literary critic George Steiner, who asked "whether the German language had survived the Hitler era, whether words poisoned by Goebbels and used to regulate and justify Belsen could ever again serve the needs of moral truth and poetic perception."
George Steiner has been writing his incandescent essays on high culture for nearly four decades now, steadily deepening his insights and widening his topical reach, but carrying on the same essential errand.
This is Steiner's point precisely.
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