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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 ...
Theodore Roethke's Far Fields: The Evolution of His Poetry. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807124543. Quetchenbach, Bernard W. (2000-01-01). Back from the Far Field: American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century. University of Virginia Press. p. 29. ISBN 9780813919546. far field roethke. McCorkle, James (1990-01-01).
[106] [107] This can be observed across contemporary published poetry in the West as an intensification within individual poets' oeuvres of "all kinds of style, subject, voice, register and form" [108] which replaces, in large measure, the more conventional or traditional search by authors for a singular definitive poetic voice.
Together with Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) (1904-1991), Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) and Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966), they formed a generation of poets that in contrast to the preceding generation often wrote in traditional verse forms.
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 ...
Roethke began writing poetry while in high school, and began his attempt at approaching poetry more seriously while in graduate school at the University of Michigan. [3] Years before the publication of "My Papa's Waltz", Roethke began suffering from manic depression and was hospitalized in 1935. Roethke continued to struggle with his bipolar ...
The Texas Folklife Festival is an annual event sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio's Institute of Texan Cultures celebrating the many ethnicities represented in the population of the state of Texas. Thousands attend the three-day event each year, which features food, crafts, music, and dances from ethnic groups that immigrated ...
The Poetry Society of Texas was established in Dallas, Texas, on November 5, 1921, prompted mainly by poet Therese Lindsey, and chartered January 26, 1922.Since then, the organization has grown to be one of the largest state poetry associations in the United States with membership including 25 chapters and 300 poets.