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Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

Auteur de The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

35+ oeuvres 1,823 utilisateurs 9 critiques 31 Favoris

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Theodore Roethke was a poet and educator. He was born on May 25, 1908 in Saginaw, Michigan. Roethke graduated from the University of Michigan in 1929. He entered Michigan Law School, but withdrew in 1930 to pursue a master's degree in literature at Harvard. Roethke did not complete his degree due afficher plus to financial problems. Roethke worked as an instructor at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania State University, and Bennington College. His 1951 book, Praise to the End, won the Bollington Prize and his 1953 volume, The Waking, Poems 1933-1953, won the Pulitzer Prize. Roethke was also a two-time winner of the National Book Award and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Roethke died on August 1, 1963. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

Œuvres de Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems (2005) 119 exemplaires
On Poetry and Craft (2001) 93 exemplaires
Selected Poems (1969) 30 exemplaires
I am! says the lamb (1961) 16 exemplaires
The lost son, and other poems (1948) 16 exemplaires
The Waking: Poems, 1933-1953 (1953) 12 exemplaires
Open House (1941) 9 exemplaires

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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributeur, quelques éditions915 exemplaires
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Contributeur — 829 exemplaires
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990) — Contributeur — 749 exemplaires
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis (2001) — Contributeur — 545 exemplaires
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Contributeur, quelques éditions443 exemplaires
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Contributeur — 388 exemplaires
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (2014) — Contributeur — 275 exemplaires
The Art of Losing (2010) — Contributeur — 197 exemplaires
Eight American Poets: An Anthology (1994) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions178 exemplaires
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Contributeur — 162 exemplaires
The Faber Book of Beasts (1997) — Contributeur — 140 exemplaires
Emergency Kit (1996) — Contributeur, quelques éditions108 exemplaires
Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead (2007) — Contributeur — 100 exemplaires
The Norton Book of Friendship (1991) — Contributeur — 95 exemplaires
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (1684) — Contributeur — 68 exemplaires
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contributeur — 68 exemplaires
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Contributeur — 63 exemplaires
Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology (1996) — Contributeur — 49 exemplaires
The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013) — Contributeur — 48 exemplaires
A Good Man: Fathers and Sons in Poetry and Prose (1993) — Contributeur — 20 exemplaires
Possibilities of Poetry: An Anthology of American Contemporaries (1970) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
Poetry in Crystal (1963) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires
New World Writing: Second Mentor Selection (1952) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
New World Writing: Fourth Mentor Selection (1953) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
Men and Women: The Poetry of Love (1970) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
Nothing Solemn: An anthology of comic verse (1973) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 5, January 1976 (1976) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Let Us Be Men (1969) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
New World Writing 19 (1961) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, October 1978 (1978) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
The Best of American Poetry [Audio] (1997) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Conversations on the craft of poetry — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

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Nom légal
Roethke, Theodore Huebner
Date de naissance
1908-05-25
Date de décès
1963-08-01
Lieu de sépulture
Buried, Oakwood Cemetery, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Lieu de naissance
Saginaw, Michigan, USA
Lieu du décès
Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA
Cause du décès
heart attack
Lieux de résidence
Seattle, Washington, USA
Études
University of Michigan (AB | 1929)
University of Michigan (MA | 1936)
Harvard University
Professions
poet
professor
tennis coach
children's book author
Relations
Roethke, Beatrice (wife)
Hillyer, Robert (teacher)
Organisations
Bread Loaf School of English
Chi Phi
Lafayette College (professor ∙ tennis coach)
Pennsylvania State University (professor ∙ tennis coach)
University of Washington (professor)
Michigan State (professor) (tout afficher 7)
Bennington College (professor)
Prix et distinctions
Bollingen Prize (1959)
Shelley Memorial Award (1961/1962)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1952])
Poetry Society of America Prize (1962)
Pacific Northwest Writers Award (1959)
Longview Award (1959) (tout afficher 22)
Edna St. Vincent Millay Award (1959)
Ford Foundation Grant (1952 ∙ 1959)
National Institute of Arts and Letters grant (1952)
nomination for honorary membership in International Mark Twain Society (1952)
National Institute and American Academy Award in Literature (1952)
Fund for the Advancement of Education fellowship (1952)
Levinson Prize (1951)
Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize (1947)
Guggenheim fellowship (1945 ∙ 1950)
Appeared on a U.S. postage stamp as one of ten, great 20th Century American poets
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Kappa Phi
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1956
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1954)
National Book Award for Poetry (1959 | 1965)

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This collection is a mixed bag. I’m rating it with five stars anyway, for when Roethke was good, he was very good. I liked in particular “The Lost Son.” It has a language and themes all its own and gives the feeling it could have been written by no other poet. There are many other fine ones as well. I’m struck by how many good love poems he wrote, as incongruous as they seem in company of those in which he rages in the mire of physical life. Throughout, there is the contention between flesh and spirit and the awareness of death. Many images are recurrent: stone, snail, snake, and the basic elements, especially fire and water. He was also obsessed with birds and—son of the greenhouse—flowers.
A telling line from “What Can I Tell My Bones” seems a key to Roethke’s perceptions and obsessions: “The dead love the unborn.” Roethke is intensely aware that his particular person is part of a great network of being, connected not only to all of nature (animate and inanimate) but to all that came before or will come. His yearning for reconnection with this leads not only to the imagery of rebirth; his longing extends to a recapitulation of evolution. The self-referential “worm,” conventionally in the pen of other writers an expression of self-loathing (at times in Roethke as well), is, for him, a sign of kinship.
Roethke’s nursery poems point in the same direction, a recapturing of simplicity. For the most part, however, these songs of experience-informed innocence don’t work for me. Nevertheless, there are many poems in this book that I’ll return to again and again.
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HenrySt123 | 5 autres critiques | Jul 19, 2022 |
This paperback edition contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published volumes plus sixteen previously uncollected poems. Included are his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners The Walking, Words for the Wind, and The Far Field.
 
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PSZC | 5 autres critiques | May 20, 2019 |
A long-time favorite. I bought this book while in college, and pull it up regularly to reread it.
 
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CarolJMO | Dec 12, 2016 |
I was more than a little disappointed in these. Only familiar with one poem, an elegy written for a student of his, which was lovely. This was pretty pricey too, and came without a dust jacket.
 
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unclebob53703 | 5 autres critiques | Feb 21, 2016 |

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Œuvres
35
Aussi par
38
Membres
1,823
Popularité
#14,112
Évaluation
4.0
Critiques
9
ISBN
30
Langues
1
Favoris
31

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