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Biography of Theodore RoethkeName: Theodore RoethkeBirth Date: May 25, 1908 Death Date: August 1, 1963 Place of Birth: Saginaw, Michigan, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: poet, teacher Theodore Roethke American poet and teacher Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) is considered a major poet of his generation. He demonstrated a wide range of styles and growing awareness of how to transform his love of nature into a vehicle for expressing his mystical visions.Theodore Roethke was born in Saginaw, Mich., on May 25, 1908. The family owned the largest greenhouses in the state. He called his home "a wonderful place for a child to grow up in and around"--25 acres under glass in town and "the last stand of virgin timber in the Saginaw Valley" out in the country.Roethke claimed to have hated high school; nevertheless, he continued his education, earning a bachelor of arts degree at the University of Michigan (1929) and spending 1930-1931 at Harvard. He began teaching at Lafayette College (1931), later taught at Pennsylvania State College, then moved to Bennington as assistant professor of English (1943). By 1947 he had settled at the University of …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…taking his verse into the province of his master, W. B. Yeats: visionary lyrics, interior monologues, projected personae, transmuted life. He died on Aug. 1, 1963, of a heart attack. Had Roethke lived longer, he might well have surpassed his masters. Further Reading Roethke's Collected Poems appeared in 1966. Ralph J. Mills, Jr., edited Selected Letters (1968) and a volume of selected prose, On the Poet and His Craft (1965). The only biography of Roethke is Allan Seager, The Glass House: The Life of Theodore Roethke (1968). The major critical study is Karl Malkoff, Theodore Roethke: An Introduction to the Poetry (1966). Arnold Stein, ed., Theodore Roethke: Essays on the Poetry (1965), contains an introduction by the editor and essays by critics.Meyers, Jeffrey, Manic power: Robert Lowell and his circle, New York: Arbor House, 1987.Seager, Allan, The glass house: the life of Theodore Roethke, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991. Wolff, George, Theodore Roethke, Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981. |