Volume 27, Number 9 · May 29, 1980
The Powers of Sympathy
By Irvin Ehrenpreis
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets
by Helen Vendler
Harvard University Press, 376 pp., $15.00
Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing
edited by Daniel Hoffman
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 618 pp., $18.50
The American poet wants all the attention he can get, along with some cash rewards. American critics are seldom patrons, able to put money in his hand. But they must feel as their overriding duty the need to give him intelligent appreciation. Anyone who reads much of modern criticism comes to feel disheartened by the substitutes offered for true understanding and judgment.
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