BIB_ID
414947
Accession number
MA 22208.1
Creator
Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963, sender.
Display Date
Seattle, Washington, 1951 April 17.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 28 x 21.6 cm
Notes
Written and signed in green ink "Theodore Roethke."
The letter is marked and checked in pencil showing completed tasks from the letter.
The letter is marked and checked in pencil showing completed tasks from the letter.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Saying that if he wants "Praise to the end!" that is fine with him, but he can't think of a better title, despite the upsetting subject of the poem; adding that since the last poem of the book, "I cry, love! love!" coud also be called "Praise to the end!" that the title could work out; giving 2 changes to the text; expressing his joy in Elder's enthusiasm for the book and his hopes that people will understand it as a sequence and not just a book of poems; requesting a light typeface and paper that is not like blotting paper for when it goes to print; stating that he will try to send the title for the one poem that he owes him soon.
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