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By KNOPF
THEODORE ROETHKE is unlike most modern poets in the sense of inner security and certainty which his poems communicate. He has an athletic eager spirit, which knows the value of ‘the impact of defeat,’ and the quality of endurance: —
The teeth of knitted gears
Turn slowly through the night,
But the true substance bears
The hammer’s weight.
Turn slowly through the night,
But the true substance bears
The hammer’s weight.
He knows ‘the fortitude whereby true work is wrought.’ This fortitude appears in his own craftsmanship. Whether he is writing light satire or descriptions of natural scenes, his poems have a controlled grace of movement, and his images the utmost precision; while in the expression of a kind of gnomic wisdom which is peculiar to him he attains an austerity of contemplation and a pared, spare strictness of language very unusual in poets of today. E. D
W. H. C. WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLAIN
R. E. D. RICHARD E. DANIELSON
E. D. ELIZABETH DREW
W. F. WILSON FOLLETT
H. S. HAROLD SPROUT
C. R. W. CHARLES R. WALKER
E. W. CHARLES R. WALKER EDWARD WEEKS