Letter from Theodore Roethke, State College, Pennsylvania, to John Sargent, 1947 June 13 : typescript signed.

Stating that he is sending a third long piece and some shorter ones which have not been published, so he may want to send them to Mary Louise Aswell of Harper's Bazaar or the Vogue people; mentioning since Sargent said these people are "very name-conscious" that Auden, Bogan, Burke, Martha Graham, W.C. Williams, Shapiro, etc. all thought his work was fresh and exciting, especially Auden who read the last piece 4 or 5 times and kept saying "This is extremely good"; suggesting that "The shape of the fire" represents "with its quick shifts in rhythm and association, a poem that creates a genuine imaginative order out of what comes from the unconscious, as opposed to the merely automatic responses of the surrealists"; discussing ideas of binding, type, and jacket for the book (The lost sons and other poems) that he went over with Ken.