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A field guide to the poetry of Theodore Roethke /

"This volume is the first to reconsider Roethke's work in terms of the expanded critical approaches to literature that have emerged since his death in 1963. The forty-four contributors include highly respected literary scholars, critics, and writers, such as Peter Balakian, Camille Paglia,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Barillas, William David (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • House, Field, Stones, and Stars: An Introduction
  • Open House (1941)
  • 1: "Open House"
  • 2: "To My Sister"
  • 3: "Beneath an Undivided Sky"
  • 4: "Sharper on the Ear"
  • 5: Smart Like Auden?: "Lull" and "September 1, 1939"
  • 6: Ironic Quest in "Highway: Michigan"
  • 7: Movement through Space, Sound, and Time in "Night Journey"
  • The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)
  • 8: "Cuttings" and "Cuttings (later)"
  • 9: All the Small, Unlovely Things
  • 10: Locating the Poet in "Weed Puller"
  • 11: "Orchids."
  • 12: "Moss-Gathering" and Roethke's Romantic Child of Nature
  • 13: The Storm of the Mind vs. Family and Machine in "Big Wind"
  • 14: "Long Days under the Sloped Glass"
  • 15: "Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze" and the Sleeping Beauty Tale
  • 16: Meter in "My Papa's Waltz"
  • 17: Syntax and Diction in "Dolor"
  • 18: Imagery and Abstraction in "Night Crow"
  • 19: "The Lost Son"
  • 20: Respite for the Lost Son
  • Praise to the End! (1951)
  • 21: Homegrown Cosmologies
  • 22: "Give Way, Ye Gates" and Roethke's Praise to the End! Sequence
  • The Waking (1953)
  • 23: "The Visitant."
  • 24: "Elegy for Jane"
  • 25: Dancing "The Dance"
  • 26: Subduing Fear in "The Waking"
  • Words for the Wind (1958)
  • 27: Love, Selfhood, and Sublimation in "Words for the Wind"
  • 28: Moving Circles in "I Knew a Woman"
  • 29: "First Meditation" and Roethke's Career
  • I Am! Says the Lamb (1961)
  • 30:A Few Thousand Words on Theodore Roethke, Children's Poetry, and Three Poems Concerning Two Turtles (One of Whom Is Named Myrtle)
  • The Far Field (1964)
  • 31: "The Longing"
  • 32: Spirit, Self, and Shorebirds
  • 33: "Journey to the Interior," "The Longing," and the Search for a Definitive Text
  • 34: Mnetha in "The Long Waters"
  • 35: The Ecological Vision of "The Far Field"
  • 36: Nature Mysticism in "The Rose"
  • 37: "The Abyss"
  • 38: "Otto"
  • 39: "The Meadow Mouse"
  • 40: The Zoopoetics of "The Pike"
  • 41: Roethke's Dark SocietyRevisiting "In a Dark Time"
  • 42: "I Am Not Yet Undone"
  • 43: Symbolism and the Mystic's Way in "The Tree, the Bird"
  • 44: "Once More, the Round"
  • Works Cited
  • Contributors
  • Index