Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
Autore di The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Opere di Theodore Roethke
The Achievement of Theodore Roethke: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Criticial Interpretation (1966) 23 copie
Essays On The Poetry 1 copia
Dolor {poem} 1 copia
The Exorcism 1 copia
Glad za postojanjem 1 copia
Vijf gedichten 1 copia
The Waking {poem} 1 copia
Michigan Quarterly Review 1 copia
Roethke Songs 1 copia
Opere correlate
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 923 copie
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Collaboratore — 407 copie
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Collaboratore — 152 copie
Lapham's Quarterly - Lines of Work: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2011 (2011) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
Conversations on the craft of poetry — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Words Among America: Sixty Poems of Challenge and Hope — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Roethke, Theodore Huebner
- Data di nascita
- 1908-05-25
- Data di morte
- 1963-08-01
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Buried, Oakwood Cemetery, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Saginaw, Michigan, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA
- Causa della morte
- heart attack
- Luogo di residenza
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Michigan (AB | 1929)
University of Michigan (MA | 1936)
Harvard University - Attività lavorative
- poet
professor
tennis coach
children's book author - Relazioni
- Roethke, Beatrice (wife)
Hillyer, Robert (teacher) - Organizzazioni
- 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) (mostra tutto 7)
Bennington College (professor) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- 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) (mostra tutto 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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Statistiche
- Opere
- 35
- Opere correlate
- 39
- Utenti
- 1,832
- Popolarità
- #14,049
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 9
- ISBN
- 30
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 31
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.… (altro)