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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 ...
Of course, most citizens suffering mental illness and substance-abuse issues are not homeless. ... Theodore Roethke described these blessed sufferers as possessing “nobility of soul.” ...
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 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 ...
Genie, pseudonym for a feral child who was a victim of severe abuse, neglect, and social isolation; Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector and bohemian socialite; Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and professional scout; Caroline Kennedy, American author, attorney, diplomat and her brother John F. Kennedy Jr., American lawyer and journalist
In 1959 M. L. Rosenthal first used the term "confessional" in a review of Robert Lowell's Life Studies entitled "Poetry as Confession". [6] Rosenthal differentiated the confessional approach from other modes of lyric poetry by way of its use of confidences that (Rosenthal said) went "beyond customary bounds of reticence or personal embarrassment". [7]
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.
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 ...