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In the century and a half since then, Americans have become much more accustomed to polemic peltings than to poetic praise from Europe, but the latest literary mail carries an eloquently Goethian fan letter.

From Time Magazine Archive

At 32, Critic Steiner shapes his definitions and distinctions with mature authority, and shows a kind of Goethian aplomb in stating bald-faced but sometimes neglected truths, as when he writes, "Tragedies end badly."

From Time Magazine Archive