SOURCE: "Inside Story," in The New Republic, Vol. 105, No. 1, July 14, 1941, p. 62.
An American poet and translator, Humphries published several volumes of verse and translated works by the Spanish poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca and the classical writers Ovid, Virgil, Juvenal, and Lucretius. In the following review, Humphries declares Open House an honest and impressive debut collection that demonstrates Roethke has much promise as a poet.
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