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Theodore Huebner Roethke (/ ˈ r ɛ t k i / RET-kee; [1] 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 ...
Theodore Roethke hardly fits anyone’s image of the stereotypical high-minded poet-intellectual of the 1940s through 1960s. Born in Saginaw, Michigan, his father was a German immigrant who owned and ran a 25-acre greenhouse.
Theodore Roethke was an American poet whose verse is characterized by introspection, intense lyricism, and an abiding interest in the natural world. Roethke was educated at the University of Michigan (B.A., 1929; M.A., 1935) and Harvard University.
My Papa’s Waltz. By Theodore Roethke. The whiskey on your breath. Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans. Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother’s countenance.
Roethke’s Poetry. Roethke’s first collection of poems, Open House, was published in 1941 to wide acclaim. Roethke was a master stylist of both free verse and fixed forms. Many of his poems are intensely lyrical and draw from the natural world in all its mystery and fierce beauty. In 1954, Roethke received the Pulitzer Prize for The Waking.
Theodore Roethke - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Theodore Roethke, born in in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1908, received the Pulizter Prize in 1954 for The Waking.
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) was an innovator, both in subject matter and form, writing in the transcendental tradition of Emerson and Thoreau but making it his own. The key to his powerful identification with nature can be found in his childhood.
Theodore Roethke. The Waking - Theodore Roethke was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1908. The son of an orchid and rose specialist, he spent much of his childhood in the 25-acre greenhouse (one of the largest in the Midwest) that his family owned.
Roethke, Theodore (25 May 1908–01 August 1963), poet, was born Theodore Huebner Roethke in Saginaw, Michigan, the son of Otto Roethke and Helen Huebner, owners of a local greenhouse. As a student at Saginaw’s Arthur Hill High School, Roethke demonstrated early promise in a speech on the Junior Red Cross that was subsequently published in ...
Theodore Roethke, the poet. Theodore Roethke was born in 1908 in Saginaw, Michigan and grew up in the house now preserved as The Theodore Roethke Home Museum. This house at 1805 Gratiot Avenue was built around 1911 for Roethke’s parents, Otto and Helen.
