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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Helen Vendler
![Helen Vendler](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: April 30, 1933 (age 91)
Bio: Helen Hennessy Vendler is an American literary critic and is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.
Known for:
- The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar (2015)
- Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (2007)
- Poets thinking (2004)
- Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire (1984)