SOURCE: "Far from the Crash of the Long Swell: Theodore Roethke's 'North American Sequence'," in Discovering Ourselves in Whitman: The Contemporary Long Poem, University of Illinois Press, 1989, pp. 78-98.
In the following essay, Gardner classifies Roethke's "North American Sequence" in the long poem genre and compares the method and style of the sequence to Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," which Gardner perceives as a model of the American long poem.
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