Volume 17, Number 8 · November 18, 1971
Playboy of the Western Word
By Christopher Ricks
In Bluebeard's Castle
by George Steiner
Yale, 141 pp., $5.95
These essays of George Steiner about modern culture and modern barbarism were the T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, and their subtitle, 'Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture,' alludes to Eliot's Notes (1948). Or, in Mr. Steiner's conscious prose, is 'intended in memoration of Eliot's Notes.' So I was reminded of, and should like to memorate, some things that Eliot said about I. A. Richards in 1927, which Steiner had no need to mention but which are apt to his book. (It was to Richards and Mrs. Richards that Steiner recently dedicated Extraterritorial.)
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