January 28, 2005
The Grand Dame of Poetry Criticism
No one has had the public impact of the rigorously untheoretical Helen VendlerList: Selection of Helen Vendler's published works
In literary conversation, she is sometimes called "Dame Helen" -- a nickname that can be affectionate or sarcastic, occasionally a little of both. No American critic writing about contemporary poetry has quite the prominence of Helen Vendler, the A. Kingsley Porter university professor at Harvard University. Over the past four decades, her reviews
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