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Theodore Huebner Roethke (/ ˈ r ɛ t k i / RET-kee; [1] May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1954 for his book The Waking, and the annual National Book Award for Poetry on two occasions: in 1959 for Words for the Wind, [2] and posthumously in ...
The poem belongs among Roethke's series of "Greenhouse Poems" the first section of The Lost Son, a sequence hailed as "one of the permanent achievements of modern poetry" [1] and marked as the point of Roethke's metamorphosis from a minor poet into one of "the first importance", [2] into the poet James Dickey would regard among the greatest of ...
The Theodore Roethke Collection at the University of Washington [8] holds two of Roethke's original holographs of "My Papa's Waltz", entitled "MS-A" and "MS-B", which John McKenna feels prove that tone was a poetic device to which Roethke paid close attention. [5]
The Far Field is a 1964 poetry collection by Theodore Roethke, and the poem for which it was named. It was Roethke's final collection, published after his death in 1963. It was Roethke's final collection, published after his death in 1963.
In 1995, the alley to the west of the Blue Moon was named Roethke Mews in honor of the bar's famous patron Theodore Roethke. [6] The business has been described as a dive bar . [ 7 ]
The Bloedel Reserve has both natural and highly landscaped lakes, immaculate lawns, woods, a stone garden [1] (formerly the swimming pool where poet Theodore Roethke drowned in 1963), a moss garden, a rhododendron glen, and a reflection garden designed with the assistance of landscape architects Richard Haag, Thomas Church, Kazimir Wall, and ...
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The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry is an anthology of two volumes edited by Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann (1918–1987), and Robert O'Clair.. The anthology is large, with 1,100 pages in each of the two volumes.