SOURCE: "The Poetry of Theodore Roethke," in Western Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, Winter, 1954, pp. 131-46.
Kramer is a prominent art critic who has served on the staff of such journals as Arts Digest, Arts Magazine, Nation, New Leader, New Criterion, and the New York Times. In the following essay, which focuses primarily on the collection Praise to the End!, Kramer maintains that Roethke's treatment of prerational existence represents "the expression of a new primitivism. "
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