SOURCE: A review of Praise to the End!, in The New Yorker, Vol. XXVII, No. 53, February 16, 1952, pp. 107-08.
In the following excerpt, Bogan compares Roethke's poetry to that of Richard Eberhart and applauds the symbolism that Roethke employs in Praise to the End! to suggest the journey from childhood into mature consciousness.
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