Theodore Roethke

American poet (1907-1963)

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Born: 1908
Died: 1963
Works: 74

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: United States
Active from: 1908
Active to: 1963

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Theodore Huebner Roethke (pronounced /ˈrɛtkə/ RET-keh) (May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Theodore+Roethke">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

“My secrets cry aloud.I have no need for tongue.My heart keeps open house,My doors are widely swung. An epic of the eyes My love, with no disguise.”
“My truths are all foreknown, This anguish self-revealed. I’m naked to the bone, With nakedness my shield.”
“The light comes brighter from the east; the caw Of restive crows is sharper on the ear.”
“And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world.”
“He loops in crazy figures half the night Among the trees that face the corner light. But when he brushes up against a screen, We are afraid of what our eyes have seen: For something is amiss or out of place When mice with wings can wear a human face.”
“This urge, wrestle, resurrection of dry sticks,Cut stems struggling to put down feet,What saint strained so much,Rose on such lopped limbs to a new life?”

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Key facts

Born: Theodore Huebner Roethke , May 25, 1908, Saginaw, Michigan , U.S.
Died: August 1, 1963 (1963-08-01) (aged 55), Bainbridge Island, Washington , U.S.
Occupation: Teacher poet author
Education: University of Michigan ( BA , MA ), Harvard University
Genre: American poetry
Notable works: The Waking , The Lost Son , The Far Field , Words for the Wind
Notable awards: Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award

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Image: Theodore Roethke in the family greenhouse, Saginaw, Michigan, ca 1920 (PORTRAITS 689).jpg

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Theodore Huebner Roethke (/ˈrɛtki/ RET-kee; 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, and posthumously in 1965 for The Far Field. His work was characterized by a willingness to engage deeply with a multifaceted introspection, and his style was overtly rhythmic, with a skilful use of natural imagery. Roethke's mastery of both free verse and fixed forms was complemented by an intense lyrical quality that drew "from the natural world in all its mystery and fierce beauty."

Roethke was praised by former U.S. Poet Laureate and author James Dickey as "in my opinion the greatest poet this country has yet produced." He was also a respected poetry teacher, and taught at the University of Washington for fifteen years. His students from that period won two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and two others were nominated for the award. "He was probably the best poetry-writing teacher ever," said poet Richard Hugo, who studied under Roethke.