Theodore Roethke
American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Waking in 1954. His greenhouse poems in The Lost Son are a major contribution to American nature poetry, and his long poems show a debt to Whitman and Dylan Thomas.
Works
- Open House
- The Lost SonMystical poems exploring childhood regression and poetic rebirth
- The WakingPoems on mortality and waking, including villanelle of the same name
- Words for the WindLove poems and lyrics celebrating sensuality and human connection
- The Far FieldLate poems on aging, mortality, and journeys through landscape