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Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2020

1 online resource (373 pages)

ISBN 9780804041164 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780804012317

Print version: Barillas, William A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke Athens, OH : Ohio University Press,c2020 ISBN 9780804012317

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.

This timely and accessible companion to the work of twentieth-century American poet Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) gathers essays that illuminate his poetics, themes, and the contexts of his poems through the diverse critical approaches that have emerged in the past five decades..

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