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	ArtsEditor: January 2000: Salvaged Poems of Theodore Roethke
		Roethke had not been thrown out in the trash, exactly; there was some concession in the promise of being converted.
		A native of the foothills of Southeastern Ohio, Plumly adored the bucolic.
		Roethke taught at the University of Washington in Seattle.
	www.artseditor.com /html/january00/jan00_roethke.shtml (1387 words)

	Papers: Theodore Roethke's "I Knew a Woman" [laze.net]
		In line 12, Roethke describes himself as a "rake" and her as a "sickle." A sickle is a crude instrument used to plow fields, doing the brunt work, whereas a rake follows the sickle and loosens the ground, putting the debris in neat rows.
		Similarly, Roethke is the one "Coming behind her for her pretty sake," as in, he is not really necessary for the job (or here, the relationship), but he's there to try and make some sort of contribution to the relationship.
		In line 25 of the poem, Roethke "swear"s she "casts a shadow white as stone." The fact that shadows are always fl, and fl is an archetype for evil and death accentuates the pureness of this woman.
	www.laze.net /papers/roethke.shtml (794 words)

	Theodore Roethke
		Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963) was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry.
		Roethke was born in 1908 in Saginaw[?], Michigan.
		Theodore Roethke suffered a fatal heart attack and died in 1963.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/Theodore_Roethke.html (223 words)

	Amazon.com: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke: Books: Theodore Roethke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The poetry of Theodore Roethke is written by a man profoundly alive -- skirting the edge of suicide, losing his voice in the awe of love, reeling wildly in the throes of "the pure fury," and looking at last with calm eyes into infinity and his own undoing in the Far Field.
		Roethke retained rhyme and meter in a time when all the conventions of poetry were being ripped apart; and he did so with a consummate technical skill not to be found in the Beatniks or in the Black Mountain poets.
		Theodore Roethke achieved greatness in art by having the courage to confront the most intense human experiences and the skill to craft them into some of the most eloquent poems of his time.
	www.amazon.com /Collected-Poems-Theodore-Roethke/dp/0385086016 (1953 words)

	Theodore Roethke's Life and Career
		From 1925 to 1929 Roethke distinguished himself at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, graduating magna cum laude.
		Although thematically akin to Roethke's work of the late 1940s, this volume's title piece marked the poet's return to formalist verse, composed as it is in the complex villanelle pattern.
		Roethke's historical significance rests both on his established place in the American canon and on his influence over a subsequent generation of award-winning poets that includes Robert Bly, James Dickey, Carolyn Kizer, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, William Stafford, David Wagoner, and James Wright.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/m_r/roethke/bio.htm (1627 words)

	Summer 2001 Michigan Today--Theodore Roethke notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Roethke's brass bed stands in the corner of his bedroom as it did when he was a boy; the table that was in his room, at which he must have done his schoolwork, stands in the center hall downstairs.
		Roethke and Huff attended a Presbyterian conference together in the summer of 1925 and their mothers thought it would be a good idea for them to room together at college.
		June Roethke, Otto Graf of the U-M faculty and former roommate Robert Crouse, Jr., arranged for Roethke to be admitted to Mercywood.
	www.umich.edu /~newsinfo/MT/01/Sum01/trnotes.html (2802 words)

	theodore roethke background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1908, Theodore Roethke, the son of Otto and Helen Roethke, was born in Saginaw, Michigan.
		Otto Roethke was originally from Germany, but he immigrated to America with his father and brother when he was a small child.
		Theodore Roethke was known for his imagery of plant life.
	www.eiu.edu /~eng1002/authors/roethke3/TheodoreRoethkeFinished2.html (895 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke: Books: Theodore Roethke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Roethke's marvelous descriptions of what he is able to see and perceive has made him one of my favorite poets, rivaling my admiration for poets like Walt Whitman.
		Theodore Roethke wrote poems of the body, of the earth, and of passion....
		Roethke possessed a way of speaking in his poetry that was both confessional and deeply spiritual.
	www.amazon.ca /Collected-Poems-Theodore-Roethke/dp/0385086016 (1371 words)

	PAL: Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
		Theodore Roethke's far fields: the evolution of his poetry.
		Lindroth, James R. "Roethke and the New Hermeneutic: Sublation and the Fusion of Horizons in 'Meditations of an Old Woman'." Green River Rev 14.2 (1983): 18-32.
		Theodore Roethke, poetry of the earth, poet of the spirit.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap10/roethke.html (318 words)

	Amazon.fr : On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose of Theodore Roethke: Livres en anglais: Carolyn Kizer,Theodore Roethke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This fresh look at the thoughts of Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet Roethke was created from two previous volumes of the writer's prose notebooks: On the Poet and His Craft (1965) and Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-62 (1972).
		This volume focuses on Roethke as a demanding yet introspective teacher who struggled with his personal life and taught his students the value of verbs and cadence.
		Theodore Roethke was one of the most famous and outpoken poets and poetry teachers this country has ever known.
	www.amazon.fr /Poetry-Craft-Selected-Theodore-Roethke/dp/155659156X (468 words)

	Theodore Roethke's Elegy for Jane Part 1: Influences and Sources
		Without knowing something of Roethke's personal and professional life, one would think that a student named Jane was the sole inspiration for this moving elegy; however, in The Glass House, the poet's biographer, Allan Seager, reveals more than one possible source of inspiration for the poem.
		At the University of Washington, as at Roethke's other teaching posts, students liked him, and he frequently formed close relationships with his students--in fact, he married one of his former students; however, this was not the case with Jane Bannick.
		Parini believes that Roethke uses Jane's death to call up a "certain emotional state" and that "the poet's feelings of grief and pity transcend the occasion": "Roethke is mourning not only this student whom he knew only slightly, but the deaths of us all"(138-39).
	soucc.southern.cc.oh.us /Home/bedwards/elegy1.htm (767 words)

	Theodore Roethke - People of Michigan
		Theodore spent many of his youthful days in the greenhouse, playing and working in the colorful world of plants and flowers.
		Roethke searched for a teaching position, and he was successful when he was hired by Lafayette College in Pennsylvania.
		A very good collection of his poetry The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke is available now through our association with Amazon.com by clicking here.
	www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/mi_tr.htm (371 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Journey into the interior of poet Theodore Roethke
		Roethke's widow, Beatrice Roethke Lushington, talks of both the good times and the bad (Roethke was bipolar and subject to mental breakdowns).
		Walkinshaw lets Roethke speak for himself on his "mystical" bent, in terms and a tone of voice closer to a longshoreman's than an ivory-tower poet's.
		Roethke is also memorably vivid on his "visceral and manic" style of teaching.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2002642814_roethke24.html (614 words)

	Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
		The three women's vigor and authority should be noted, as well as their avoidance of limitation by sex-role stereotypes: clearly female (they wear skirts, they have a special association with the child), they also climb ladders and stand astride the steam-pipes providing heat in the greenhouse.
		Theodore Roethke's Far Fields: The Evolution of Hid Poetry (1989).
		Stout, Janis P. "Theodore Roethke and the Journey of the Solitary Self." Interpretations 16 (1985): 86-93.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/roethke.html (579 words)

	Theodore Roethke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Theodore Huebner Roethke (IPA: ['ɹ ɛ t.ki]; RET-key) (May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was a United States poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm and natural imagery.
		The pool was later filled in and is now a moss garden, which can be viewed by the public at the Bloedel Reserve, a 150-acre (60 hectare) former private estate.
		Stanley Kunitz recounts Roethke's exuberant recitation of his children's poem, "The Cow", for Kunitz's daughter in the poem, "Journal for My Daughter" [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theodore_Roethke (723 words)

	Theodore Roethke Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		With his reputation growing as a capeable writer, Theodore Roethke found another teaching and coaching job at Pennsylvania State University in the year 1936.
		Roethke then wrote a second volume of poems called The Lost Son and Other Poems which was a hit also.
		Before for this fatal incident Roethke wrote 61 poems that were published after his death in The Far Feild in 1964, which won the National Book Award, and in The Collected Poems in 1966.
	www.eiu.edu /~eng1002/authors/roethke/bio.html (393 words)

	Wikinfo \| Theodore Roethke
		Theodore Roethke (May 25, 1908 - August 1, 1963) was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry.
		Theodore Roethke suffered a fatal heart attack and died in 1963 in Bainbridge Island, Washington.
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	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Theodore_Roethke (308 words)

	Theodore Roethke Summary
		American poet and teacher Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) is considered a major poet of his generation.
		By the time Theodore Roethke arrived at the University of Washington in the fall of 1947, he was nearing forty and had more than a dozen years of college-teaching experience.
		Theodore Huebner Roethke(IPA: ['t.ki]; RET-key)(May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was a United States poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm and natural imagery.
	www.bookrags.com /Theodore_Roethke (313 words)

	Theodore Roethke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Theodore Roethke was born in Saginaw, Michigan, where both his father and his grandfather maintained greenhouses.
		For young Roethke the greenhouses represented the beauty that can come out of the "terrifying efficiency" and order practiced by German Americans, and he noted how the barren Michigan landscape contrasted sharply with the greenhouses' lush, floral interiors, reminding him that desolation is never far away.
		In his first four books of poetry, Roethke situated himself as a child in the midst of nature, exploring the cultivator as god, fate, witch, and muse.
	www.wwnorton.com /college/english/naal5/explore/roethke.htm (440 words)

	Poet Theodore Roethke
		Theodore H. Roethke, who served on the UW faculty from 1947 until his death in 1963, has earned a place in history as perhaps the greatest American poet of his generation.
		In one instance, Roethke was said to have gone into the University Bookstore near the campus, and ordered a dozen golf balls, along with volumes of his poetry, to be sent to the chiefs of police in Bellingham and Seattle.
		Roethke gave readings throughout the U.S. and Europe, and was named "Poet in Residence" at the UW in 1962.
	www.washington.edu /research/showcase/1947b.html (1009 words)

	[minstrels] Dolor -- Theodore Roethke
		Certainly that is one of Roethke's points, and it's not one I disagree with.
		It was all of five minutes ago :) [Construction] Notice how Roethke, like Whitman in "When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer" (Minstrels Poem #54), uses long and decidedly unpoetic words in clunky, choppy phrases to convey the stultifying effect of mechanical repetition and duplication.
		[Minstrels Links] Poet #Roethke Poet #Whitman [Afterthought] While I agree with the overall thrust of Roethke's poem, on further reflection I must take exception to the first couple of lines: I happen to _like_ the easy weight of sharp new pencils, the smell and texture of fresh sheets of paper.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1075.html (645 words)

	Director's Column: Theodore Roethke House Receives Literary Landmark Designation
		The Theodore Roethke House, located at 1805 Gratiot Avenue in Saginaw, joins a distinguished group of historic literary sites that includes the homes of William Faulkner, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams, among other well-known writers.
		Roethke drew much of the inspiration for his poetry from his childhood experience of working in his family’s floral company.
		It was truly a pleasure to meet and work with Mary Ellen Roethke, cousin of Theodore, and the other members of the board of the Friends of Theodore Roethke Foundation in the process of applying for the Literary Landmark designation.
	www.svsu.edu /library/newslettersp04 (415 words)

	Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz
		Theodore Roethke taught for a good part of his adult life at the University of Washington, in Seattle.
		Furthermore, as Roethke himself came from a line of foresters and people who dealt with living growing plants, his poetry often dealing with light and growth, the whiskey on papa's breath being the portion of the Sun's radiation that makes the earth dizzy with life is a safe-bet symbol.
		Perhaps it is possible that Roethke was influenced by the surrealist movement in general and by Breton in particular.
	www.n7nz.org /popwaltz/gioia2.htm (10289 words)

	Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
		Personal Background: Roethke had extremely ambivalent feelings about his father, who was managing partner in a large greenhouse operation in Saginaw, Michigan.
		They are distinguished from, say, Wordworth's nature poems in that they celebrate equally the natural processes themselves and the human effort and control involved.
		Here, in particular, we see Roethke's wonder at the sheer life process even when manifested in forms that would ordinarily seem ugly or repellent.
	www.georgetown.edu /bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/roethke.html (579 words)

	Theodore Roethke Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Theodore Roethke was born in Saginaw, Mich., on May 25, 1908.
		Roethke claimed to have hated high school; nevertheless, he continued his education, earning a bachelor of arts degree at the University of Michigan (1929) and spending 1930-1931 at Harvard.
		Roethke began writing prose in high school but switched to poetry in graduate school (encouraged by Robert Hillyer and I. Richards).
	www.bookrags.com /biography/theodore-roethke (511 words)

	American Poets Project - Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems
		From the recollections of his youth in Michigan to the visionary longings of the poems written just before his death, Theodore Roethke embarked on a quest to restore wholeness to a self that seemed irreparably broken.
		Roethke's true subject was the unfathomable depths of his own being, but his existential investigations were always shaped and disciplined by an exacting formal stringency, as equally at ease with Yeats' vigorous cadence ("Four for Sir John Davies") as with the spacious Whitmanian idiom on display in the virtuoso efforts of The Far Field.
		This gathering of Roethke's works also includes several of his poems for children, and a generous sampling from his notebook writings, offering a glimpse of the poet at work with the raw materials of language and ideas.
	www.americanpoetsproject.org /volume/1931082782 (144 words)

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