A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke

Authors

William Barillas

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Description

A constellation of essays that reanimates the work of this pivotal twentieth-century American poet for a new century.

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. Editor William Barillas and over forty contributors, including highly respected literary scholars, critics, and writers such as Peter Balakian, Camille Paglia, Jay Parini, and David Wojahn, collectively make a case for Roethke’s poetry as a complete, unified, and evolving body of work. The accessible essays employ a number of approaches, including formalism, ecocriticism, reader-response, and feminist critique to explicate the poetics, themes, and the biographical, historical, cultural, and literary contexts of Roethke’s work.

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A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke © 2021 by Ohio University Press is licensed under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Language

eng

ISBN

9780804041164

Publication Date

2021

Publisher

Ohio University Press

City

Athens

Keywords

American poetry, twentieth-century poetry, nature poetry, Middle Generation poets, Pacific Northwest poetry, midwestern literature, Michigan poetry, poetry explication, ecocriticism, literary guides, Theodore Roethke, William Barillas

Disciplines

Literature in English, North America | Poetry

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Barillas, William, "A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke" (2021). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 54.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/54