Introduction -- APPRENTICESHIP: Roethke as student -- The student literary criticism -- Uncollected poems -- Open House -- The notebooks:1938-1948 -- THE EDGE OF MANY THINGS: The Greenhouse Sequence -- The opening knock and the lost son -- The old woman's meditation and the North American Sequence -- THE FORMAL FATHER: Devising intensity -- The Dying Man -- The Love Poems -- Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical -- Afterword.
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