In the poetry marketplace, her praise had reputation-making power, while her disapproval could be withering. By William Grimes Helen Vendler, one of the leading poetry critics in the United States, ...
Of the character sketches that the English satirist Samuel Butler wrote in the mid-seventeenth century—among them “A Degenerate Noble,” “A Huffing Courtier,” “A Small Poet,” and “A Romance Writer”—the ...