Roethke, Theodore
Roethke, Theodore ( 1908 – 63 ),American poet born in Michigan, who taught from 1947 at the University of Washington. His first book of poems, Open House ( 1941 ), already displays characteristic imagery of vegetable growth and decay, rooted in childhood memories of the greenhouses of his father, who was a keen horticulturalist. It was followed by various volumes including The Lost Son ( 1948 ), Praise to the End ( 1951 ), a book of light verse (divided into ‘Nonsense’ and ‘Greenhouse’ poems) called I Am! Says the Lamb ( 1961 ), and a posthumous collection, The Far Field ( 1964 ). His work has affinity with both Yeats and Blake , and influenced the early poetry of S. Plath .
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