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In a letter to Edmund Wilson, she detailed a raucous affair that she and the yet-unpublished Roethke carried on in 1935, during the time between his expulsion from Lafayette College and his return to Michigan.

At the time she seemed little impressed by what she called his " very, very small lyrics "; she seems to have viewed the affair as, at most, a possible source for her own work ( see What the Woman Lived: Collected letters of Louise Bogan ).