The Collected Poems Of Theodore Roethke by Theodore Roethke. Doubleday and Company, $5.95.
Miss Iris Murdoch has written that the greatest art “invigorates without consoling, and defeats our attempts to use it as magic.” The poetry of Theodore Roethke constitutes an artistic achievement of a very high order. It is a poetry suffused with magical transformations suggesting the fluidity of human experience and the metamorphic facility of the creative imagination. It is, moreover, a poetry which invigorates precisely in proportion as Roethke insistently attempts to console both himself and his readers.
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