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September 2, 2015

The Daniel Swiftboating of Helen Vendler

By Derek Mong

The knives are out again for Helen Vendler. In a recent review for The Spectator, Daniel Swift accuses the poetry critic of performing a bloodless “scientific evaluation of literature.” Her […]