The motif of the journey is more crucial to the poetry of Theodore Roethke than to that of any other major American poet since Whitman. Perhaps it is more important to Roethke. Certainly it is more coherent. Whereas Whitman's journey, if it can be...

The motif of the journey is more crucial to the poetry of Theodore Roethke than to that of any other major American poet since Whitman. Perhaps it is more important to Roethke than it is to Whitman. Certainly it is more coherent. Whereas Whitman's...

By the time Theodore Roethke arrived at the University of Washington in the fall of 1947, he was nearing forty and had more than a dozen years of college-teaching experience. His first book of poems, Open House (1941), had been favorably reviewed, and...

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....