Roethke, Theodore 1908-1963

Overview

Works:	828 works in 1,577 publications in 6 languages and 64,937 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry Fiction History Musical settings Biography Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc Records and correspondence Songs Scores Criticism, interpretation, etc
Subject Headings:
Roles:	Author, Librettist, Performer, Lyricist, Other, Dedicatee, Narrator
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 )
Theodore Roethke, an American romantic by Jay Parini( Book )
Modern American poetry; essays in criticism by Jerome Mazzaro( Book )
Straw for the fire : from the notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63 by Theodore Roethke( 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 )
Cry of the human; essays on contemporary American poetry by Ralph J Mills( Book )
The fifties: fiction, poetry, drama by Warren G French( Book )
Seven American poets from MacLeish to Nemerov : an introduction( Book )
Postmodern American poetry by Jerome Mazzaro( 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 2,341 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 )

65 editions published between 1948 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 2,014 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 )

42 editions published between 1962 and 1971 in English and Polish and held by 1,769 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

Collected poems by Theodore Roethke( Book )

36 editions published between 1937 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,624 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

30 editions published between 1965 and 1979 in English and held by 1,609 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

Words for the wind by Theodore Roethke( Book )

25 editions published between 1953 and 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,244 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The cantos of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound( Book )

1 edition published in 1948 in English and held by 726 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 )

9 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 616 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 524 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Novel based on the Shanghai insurrection of 1927

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

8 editions published in 1961 in English and held by 513 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 479 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 460 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 )

26 editions published between 1958 and 1981 in English and Undetermined and held by 433 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A certain smile by Françoise Sagan( Book )

1 edition published in 1956 in French and held by 430 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

50 collected songs by Ned Rorem( )

4 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 424 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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 390 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Matrix : music of Louis Karchin by Louis Karchin( )

4 editions published between 2006 and 2008 in English and held by 328 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Poems of love and the rain by Ned Rorem( )

1 edition published in 1965 in English and held by 323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

New music mix( )

4 editions published between 2000 and 2007 and held by 320 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

3 editions published between 1994 and 2007 in English and held by 303 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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