Helen Vendler, in 1998, reviewing: Poems New and Collected, 1957 - 1997 by Wislawa Szymborska and New Collected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer.                                                 

“I have written on these poets before, always aware how much better a Polish or Swedish critic could describe their originality.”

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