SOURCE: "Martyr to a Motion Not His Own: Theodore Roethke's Love Poems" in Ball State University Forum, Vol. 16, No. 2, Spring, 1975, pp. 71-5.
In the following essay, La Belle asserts that Roethke's love poems place him in the tradition of John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and Dante Alighieri, among others.
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