George Steiner on Homer, Dante and Shakespeare! (2007)

Описание: The literary critic and writer George Steiner answers the question: "Which authors influenced you the most?"
From part two of an interview with anthropologist and historian Alan Macfarlane on his life and work, made in 2007.
Part one:
   • Full interview with George Steiner - part one  
Part two:
   • Interview with George Steiner, part two  
George Steiner (1929 – 2020) was a Franco-American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, and the impact of the Holocaust. An article in "The Guardian" described Steiner as a "polyglot and polymath".
Among his admirers, Steiner is ranked "among the great minds in today's literary world". English novelist A. S. Byatt described him as a "late, late, late Renaissance man ... a European metaphysician with an instinct for the driving ideas of our time". Harriet Harvey-Wood, a former literature director of the British Council, described him as a "magnificent lecturer – prophetic and doom-laden [who would] turn up with half a page of scribbled notes, and never refer to them".
Steiner was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva (1974–94), Professor of Comparative Literature and Fellow in the University of Oxford (1994–95), Professor of Poetry in Harvard University (2001–02) and an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.