Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

"There are still some missing items: like 'The Advice,' published in the New Statesman three years ago and certainly a far better poem than many of the relics now dug up from other magazines. Indeed, the poems collected here are not a revelation....Generally [they] have remained uncollected for good reasons. Indeed, it is unfortunate that they appear in the last pages of the new book and that we come upon them when our minds are full of a much greater music in the fourth part of 'The Far Field'. They would have occupied an Appendix more appropriately....It is wonderful to hear [Roethke] singing those last songs...the best of [which] are just as severely controlled as the earlier poems, but now Roethke is relying upon his own conscience, his scruple, to do the work once done by translation and exclusion."Roethke, Theodore is the author of 'Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke', published 1975 under ISBN 9780385086011 and ISBN 0385086016.