Volume 46, Number 18 · November 18, 1999
Lives of a Poet
By Denis Donoghue
Crux: The Letters of James Dickey
edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, by Judith S. Baughman
Knopf, 574 pp., $35.00
James Dickey: The Selected Poems
edited with an introduction by Robert Kirschten
Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 183 pp., $15.95 (paper)
The James Dickey Reader
edited by Henry Hart
Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 350 pp., $16.00 (paper)
In November 1968 James Dickey told readers of the Atlantic Monthly that Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) was 'in my opinion the greatest poet this country has yet produced.' He also took the opportunity to rebuke Beatrice Roethke for allegedly setting a limit on Allan Seager's disclosures in The Glass House, his biography of her husband:
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