Roethke, Theodore
Roethke, Theodore( 1908–63),born in Michigan, graduated from its state university and after further study at Harvard began a career of teaching English at various universities, from 1947 at the University of Washington. His ca-reer as a poet began with Open House (1941), brief, intense lyrics already marked by the plant imagery of growth and decay that so pervades all his poetry. The Lost Son (1948) lyrically presents psychic and physical biographical experiences of the maturing boy and man. Praise to the End! (1951) continues in a more mystic, visionary strain, showing an affinity to Yeats. The Waking (1953, Pulitzer Prize) and Words for the Wind (1958, Bollingen Prize) collect early and late work, showing great variety and great sensitivity. I Am! Says the Lamb (1961) is light verse but in the vein of Blake, and The Far Field (1964) is a posthumous gathering, whose final section was printed...
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