George Steiner on Lawrence Durrell, baroque prose, and the impoverishment of English

George Steiner, in my view, is one of the greatest literary minds ever (and is so much greater than that as well), standing alongside Rene Girard, Harold Bloom, Cynthia Ozick, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf as one of the literary luminaries of all time. He's an incredible stylist, a polymath of high wisdom, and a learned example of a dying breed, the old-fashioned, old-world intellectual.
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George Steiner on Lawrence Durrell, baroque prose, and the impoverishment of English