Volume 31, Number 19 · December 6, 1984

Difficult Daughter

By Oliver Taplin
Antigones
by George Steiner

Oxford University Press, 316 pp., $29.95

'Now obviously it has been successive experiences of immediacy, successive compulsions of identification between ancient and modern, that make up the afterlife of Hellas,' writes George Steiner in his urgent, assertive style. Yet it was not obvious to Louis MacNeice, university teacher of Greek:



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