The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

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Author:

Roethke, Theodore

ISBN:

978-0-385-08601-1

Publication Date:

Dec 1974

Publisher:

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Imprint:

Anchor

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $17.95

Book Description:

This paperback edition contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published volumes in addition to sixteen previously uncollected poems. Included are his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners The Walking, Words for the Wind, and The Far Field. These two hundred poems demonstrate the variety of Roethke's themes and styles, the comic and serious sides of his temperament, and his breakthroughs in the use of language. Together they document the...
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Book Details

Pages:	288
Detailed Subjects:	Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	5.148 x 8.034 x 0.663 Inches
Book Weight:	0.55 Pounds

Author Biography

Roethke, Theodore (Author)

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 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.

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