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Helen Vendler, ‘Colossus’ of Poetry Criticism, Dies at 90

Helen Vendler, one of the leading poetry critics in the United States, with a reputation-making power that derived from her fine-grained, impassioned readings, expressed in crystalline prose in The New Yorker and other publications, died on Tuesday at her home in Laguna Niguel, Calif. She was 90. The cause was cancer, said her son, David […]

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