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,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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