Roethke, Theodore
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
ROETHKE, THEODORE ret k , 1908 63, American poet, b. Saginaw, Mich., educated at the Univ. of Michigan and Harvard. A poet of the Midwest, Roethke combined a love of the land with his vision of the development of the individual. The moods of his poetry range from acid...