>>Helen Vendler is quite respected as a critic of 20th century poetry
>
>Her stuff on Stevens, as I remember it, was good, but not inspired, and
>next to all the interesting stuff that was happening in criticism in the
>early 1970s, seemed pretty dusty. I was at dinner with a bunch of folks in
>Munich who were pointing out that Harvard collects distinguished names who
>mainly rest on their laurels. Summers' singling out West is pretty unfair -
>there are scores of seatwarmers on the faculty.
>
>Doug
So who's playing the ranking game now, Doug? jks
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