Roethke, Theodore 1908-1963

Overview

Works:	852 works in 1,638 publications in 6 languages and 64,533 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry Fiction History Musical settings Biography Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc Personal correspondence Songs Scores Criticism, interpretation, etc
Subject Headings:
Roles:	Author, Librettist, Performer, Lyricist, Other, Dedicatee, Narrator, Creator
Classifications:	PS3535.O39, 811.54

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Most widely held works about Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke by Ralph J Mills( Book )
The echoing wood of Theodore Roethke by Jenijoy La Belle( )
Theodore Roethke : an introduction to the poetry by Karl Malkoff( Book )
The glass house; the life of Theodore Roethke by Allan Seager( Book )
The Columbia history of American poetry by Jay Parini( Book )

Contemporary American literature : 1945-1972 : an introduction by Ihab Hassan( Book )
Straw for the fire : from the notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63 by Theodore Roethke( Book )
Modern American poetry; essays in criticism by Jerome Mazzaro( Book )
The fierce embrace : a study of contemporary American poetry by Charles Molesworth( Book )
Selected letters of Theodore Roethke by Theodore Roethke( Book )
Theodore Roethke : essays on the poetry by Arnold Sidney Stein( Book )
The fifties: fiction, poetry, drama by Warren G French( Book )
Cry of the human; essays on contemporary American poetry by Ralph J Mills( Book )
Seven American poets from MacLeish to Nemerov : an introduction( Book )
Postmodern American poetry by Jerome Mazzaro( Book )
Theodore Roethke, an American romantic by Jay Parini( Book )
Theodore Roethke's dynamic vision by Richard Blessing( Book )
Theodore Roethke by George Wolff( Book )
The contemporary poet as artist and critic : eight symposia by Anthony Ostroff( Book )
The wild prayer of longing : poetry and the sacred by Nathan A Scott( Book )

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Most widely held works by Theodore Roethke

American poetry : the twentieth century( Book )

1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,333 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens

The collected poems of Theodore Roethke by Theodore Roethke( Book )

70 editions published between 1948 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 2,042 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

With the publication of Open House in 1941, Theodore Roethke began a career which established him as one of the most respected American poets. His subsequent volumes included The Waking, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, Words for the Wind, recipient of a National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of Yale University, and the posthumously published The Far Field, which won a National Book Award in 1965. Available for the first time in paperback, this volume contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published books as well as sixteen previously uncollected poems. 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 development of an extraordinary creative source in American poetry

The far field by Theodore Roethke( Book )

45 editions published between 1962 and 1971 in 3 languages and held by 1,748 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The last poems of a major American poet"--Jacket

On the poet and his craft : selected prose of Theodore Roethke by Theodore Roethke( Book )

32 editions published between 1965 and 1979 in English and held by 1,597 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Overview: "One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre." Theodore Roethke was one of the most famous and outspoken poets and poetry teachers this country has ever known. In this volume of selected prose, Roethke articulates his commitments to imaginative possibilities, offers tender advice to young writers, and zings darts at stuffed shirts, lightweights and fools

Collected poems by Theodore Roethke( Book )

37 editions published between 1937 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,595 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Words for the wind by Theodore Roethke( Book )

27 editions published between 1953 and 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,226 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The cantos of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound( Book )

1 edition published in 1948 in English and held by 725 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Presents the American poet's monumental, lifelong work which exhibits a variety of verse forms and languages

Selected poems by Theodore Roethke( Book )

26 editions published between 1969 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 680 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains a collection of selected poems by American poet Theodore Roethke, including children's poems and writings from his notebooks

La condition humaine by André Malraux( Book )

1 edition published in 1946 in French and held by 515 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

As explosive and immediate today as when it was originally published in 1933, Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine), an account of a crucial episode in the early days of the Chinese Revolution, foreshadows the contemporary world and brings to life the profound meaning of the revolutionary impulse for the individuals involved. As a study of conspiracy and conspirators, of men caught in the desperate clash of ideologies, betrayal, expediency, and free will, Andre Malraux's novel remains unequaled

I am! says the lamb by Theodore Roethke( Book )

8 editions published in 1961 in English and held by 504 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Nonsense poems and poems about nature

The waking; poems, 1933-1953 by Theodore Roethke( Book )

13 editions published between 1953 and 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 476 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A paper zoo : a collection of animal poems by modern American poets by Renée Karol Weiss( Book )

1 edition published in 1968 in English and held by 454 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of sophisticated animal poems by well known poets about such things as naming cats, a singing bird, and a slow-moving sloth

Words for the wind : the collected verse of Theodore Roethke by Theodore Roethke( Book )

32 editions published between 1957 and 1981 in English and Undetermined and held by 448 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

50 collected songs by Ned Rorem( )

4 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 435 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A certain smile by Françoise Sagan( Book )

1 edition published in 1956 in French and held by 422 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This novel is set in Paris in the 1950s and told by a young student, bored, restless, and curious about love and sex. Frank and spontaneous, vulnerable and cruel, Sagan's young narrator explores unrequited love and the precarious balance of irrational emotions and self-restraint."--Page 4 of cover

Contemporary songs in English : songs by American and English composers for recital, concert, and studio use by Bernard Taylor( )

2 editions published in 1956 in English and held by 380 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Matrix : music of Louis Karchin by Louis Karchin( )

4 editions published between 2006 and 2008 in English and held by 336 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

New music mix( )

4 editions published between 2000 and 2007 and held by 332 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Poems of love and the rain by Ned Rorem( )

1 edition published in 1965 in English and held by 322 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Dream sequence : chamber music of Andrew Imbrie by Andrew Imbrie( Recording )

4 editions published between 1994 and 2007 in English and held by 304 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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