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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 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 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]
Root Cellar" is a poem written by the American poet Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) published in Roethke's second collection, The Lost Son and Other Poems, in 1948 in Garden City, New York.
The Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize is an American poetry prize given once every three years since being established in 1967. The Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize has been offered in Saginaw, Michigan, since 1965. It is now administered by Saginaw Valley State University.
"The Waking" is a poem written by Theodore Roethke in 1953 in the form of a villanelle. It comments on the unknowable [1] with a contemplative tone. It also has been interpreted as comparing life to waking and death to sleeping. [2]
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 ]
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963), American poet This page was last edited on 21 June 2024, at 21:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...