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Review title: A potential 5 star volume that ultimately failed
Product review: Helen Vendler is surely a brilliant satirist whose goal is to skewer pretentious academics. I am stunned by her ability to cook up a consistently hilarious porridge of ivory tower gobbledygook. The comfort in poring through these dense pages of litcrit mumbojumbo comes from counting oneself lucky never to have had to sit through a lecture delivered by the kind of pompous professor that Vendler so brilliantly parodies. Every aspiring academic and every serious psychologist should invest in this perfect example of how a tone deaf literary pretender can seize the spotlight from the greatest poet who ever lived. The ultimate tragedy of Dr. Vendler's work is that genius of her caliber is underestimated. And so, alas, currently anyway, too many gullible readers fail to get the joke, and the brilliance fizzles. Or, as William Shakespeare noted, "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."
