The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
Published on 10. December 1974
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-385-08601-1 (ISBN)
Description
This paperback edition contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published volumes in addition to sixteen previously uncollected poems. Included are his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners The Walking, Words for the Wind, and The Far Field.
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 of American poetry.
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 of American poetry.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
224 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-385-08601-1 (9780385086011)
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Born in 1908 in Saginaw, MI, Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet. He published several volumes of award-winning and critically acclaimed poetry. Roethke is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation. He died in 1963 at the age of 55.