News at Eleven (Back Page): This implies that writing is not,

primarily, about self-expression, but about reception and transmission; as Winnie the Pooh once put it, with uncharacteristic menace, "Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you". What is striking here is that [George] Steiner--steeped in the Judaeo-Christian tradition; scourge of Gallic theory--should be in total agreement, on this point, with novelist Tom McCarthy, who comes, as it were, from the other side of the barricades.

from The Guardian: In theory: the death of literature
then The Washington Post: Is poetry dead? Or, in the age of the Internet, does it offer us what nothing else can?

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