SOURCE: "Theodore Roethke: The Lyric of the Self," in Poets in Progress, Northwestern University Press, 1967, pp. 3-23.
An American poet and critic, Mills has published several volumes of verse and studies of such poets as Richard Eberhart, Edith Sitwell, and Kathleen Raine, in addition to Roethke. As well, he is the author of the studies Contemporary American Poetry (1965), Creation's Very Self: On the Personal Element in Recent American Poetry (1969), and Cry of the Human: Essays on Contemporary American Poetry (1975). The following essay, published in 1962, is a revised version of an article that first appeared in Tri-Quarterly in 1958. Here Mills outlines the exploration of selfhood and existence in Roethke's verse.
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