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Theodore Roethke
"A worthy successor to Whitman and Emerson," in the words of editor Edward Hirsch, Theodore Roethke embarked on a quest to restore wholeness to a self that seemed irreparably broken…
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Contains selections from Open House, The Lost Son and Other Poems, Praise to the End, Words for the Wind, The Waking, I Am! Says the Lamb, and The Far Field…
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Jenijoy Labelle
A poet’s tradition provides him with a sense of community that may be regarded as a necessary condition for poetry. Jenijoy La Belle, who studied with Roethke, here describes the…
Allan Seager
The first detailed biography of this renowned American poet
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This timely and accessible companion to the work of twentieth-century American poet Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) gathers essays that illuminate his poetics, themes, and the contexts of his poems through the…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Theodore Roethke’s The Waking, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
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A Study Guide for Theodore Roethke’s Dolor , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Theodore Roethke’s Night Journey, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Peter Balakian
In this critical study of Theodore Roethke’s poetry, Peter Balakian treats the evolution of the poet’s work from his first book, Open House (1941), to his last, The Far Field…
A Study Guide for Theodore Roethke’s My Papa’s Waltz, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Roethke’s prose teems with fierce intelligence and outrageous quoteable quotes.
Ralph J. Mills Jr.
Theodore Roethke - American Writers 30 was first published in 1963. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the…
Theodore 1908-1963 Roethke
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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American poetry could not have evolved as it did without Theodore Roethke. -Bloomsbury Review
