SOURCE: "From Open House to the Greenhouse: Theodore Roethke's Poetic Breakthrough," in ELH, Vol. 47, No. 2, Summer, 1980, pp. 399-418.
In the following essay, Bogen studies the evolution of Roethke's poetry as illustrated in the representative poems "Genesis," "On the Road to Woodlawn," and "Cuttings."
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