SOURCE: "Theodore Roethke," in Connoisseurs of Chaos: Ideas of Order in Modern American Poetry, The Macmillan Company, 1965, pp. 219-45.
Donoghue is an Irish-born educator and literary critic. In his study The Arts without Mystery (1984), he attacks the tendency of contemporary societies to reduce art to a commodity. In the following essay, Donoghue perceives Roethke's poetry as an attempt to discern order and purpose in a world that may seem meaningless.
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