Theodore Roethke (32 page)

8
.   Underhill,
Mysticism
, pp. 288–89.

9
.   Sullivan,
Theodore Roethke: The Garden Master, p
. 160.

10
.   Eliot,
Collected Poems
, p. 192.

11
.   Blessing,
Theodore Roethke's Dynamic Vision, p
. 153.

12
.   Stevens,
Collected Poems, p
. 250.

13
.   Emerson, Journal entry for 27 June 1846, quoted in Harold Bloom,
The Ringers in the Tower
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971), p. 218.

14
.   Stevens,
Collected Poems, p
. 95.

15
.   Blake,
Complete Writings, p
. 151.

16
.   Eliot,
Colleted Poems, p
. 223.

17
.   Blake,
Complete Writings, p
. 151.

18
.   
The Essential Plotinus
, trans. Elmer O'Brian (New York: New American Library, 1964), p. 84. From
Ennead VI:
9 (9).

19
.   Staples, “The Rose in the Sea-Wind,” p. 202.

20
.   Underhill,
Mysticism, p
. 205.

21
.   William Heyen, “The Divine Abyss: Theodore Roethke's Mysticism,”
Texas Studies in Language and Literature
11, no. 2 (Summer 1969): 1068.

22
.   Stevens,
Collected Poems, p
. 288.

23
.   La Belle,
The Echoing Wood, p
. 147.

24
.   Mills, “In the Way of Becoming,” in
Theodore Roethke: Essays on the Poetry, p
. 128.

25
.   See Anthony Ostroff, “The Poet and His Critics,”
New World Writing
19 (1961): 189–219.

26
.   Underhill,
Mysticism, p
. 480.

27
.   Ibid., p. 475.

28
.   Ibid., p. 162.

CONCLUSION

1
.   Emerson,
Selected Prose and Poetry
, p. 38.

2
.   Roethke Papers, 42–210, 1962.

INDEX

Abrams, M. H.,
12
,
13
,
40
,
57

“The Abyss,”
12
–
13
,
153
,
172
–
74
,
177

“The Adamant,”
42

A. E.,
33

“All the Earth, All the Air,”
145

American Romantic.
See
Romanticism

“The Apparition,”
171

Apprenticeship of Roethke.
See
Roethke

Arnold, Matthew,
11

Autobiography.
See
Romanticism

“Ballad of a Clairvoyant Widow,”
24
,
46

Baudelaire,
5

Beckett, Samuel,
34

Berryman, John,
15

The Bible,
67
,
174

“Big Wind,”
76
–
77
,
165

Bion,
138

Blake, William,
3
,
6
,
8
,
12
,
13
,
15
,
19
,
31
,
35
–
36
,
61
,
67
,
72
,
90
,
93
,
112
,
115
,
121
,
122
,
127
,
129
,
130
,
133
,
136
,
153
,
164
,
169
,
170
,
173
,
178
,
180
,
187

Blessing, Richard Allen,
9
,
22
,
39
,
40
,
73
,
77
,
78
,
143
,
154
,
167

Bloom, Harold,
10
,
70
,
127

Boehme, Jacob,
137
,
147
–
48

Bogan, Louise,
22
–
25
,
30
,
38
,
41
,
45

“Bring the Day!”,
113

Brown, Norman O.,
7
,
8
,
57
,
58
–
59
,
119
,
121

Buber, Martin,
54
,
146

Burke, Kenneth,
7
,
28
,
51
,
53
,
55
–
62
,
68
,
69
,
76
,
77
,
96
–
98
,
101
–
3
,
105
,
106

Campbell, Joseph,
84
–
85
,
87
,
89
,
129

Carlyle, Thomas,
37

“Carnations,”
79

“Child on Top of a Greenhouse,”
78
–
79

Childhood.
See
Romanticism

“The Chums,”
175

Clare, John,
133
,
175

Coleridge, Samuel T.,
10
,
12
,
30
,
35
,
54
–
55

“The Coming of the Cold,”
43

Cooper, James Fenimore,
111

Concreteness.
See
Roethke

Contrarieties.
See
Romanticism

Crane, Hart,
15

Cummings, E. E.,
15

“Cuttings,”
72
,
78

“Cuttings (
later),”
71
,
72
–
73
,
75

“The Dance,”
141

Dante,
10
,
12
,
110
,
116
,
168
,
180

Davies, Sir John,
132
,
140
–
41
,
143
,
158
,
159

“The Decision,”
181

De Quincey, Thomas,
104

Deutsch, Babette,
178

Dialectics.
See
Romanticism, contrarieties

Dickey, James,
111

Dickinson, Emily,
15
,
41
,
42
,
144

Donne, John,
41

“Double Feature,”
80

“The Dream,”
144
–
45

“The Dying Man,”
151
–
53

Eberhart, Richard,
15

“Elegy,”
150
,
174
–
75

“Elegy for Jane,”
45
,
137
–
39
,
174
,
179

Eliade, Mircea,
82
,
85
,
86
,
89
,
90
–
92
,
93

Eliot, T. S.,
15
,
36
,
38
,
44
,
83
,
94
–
96
,
151
,
162
–
64
,
166
–
68
,
170
,
172
–
73
,
180

Ellmann, Richard,
128

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
3
–
5
,
9
,
11
,
13
–
15
,
19
–
20
,
23
,
30
–
31
,
34
–
37
,
48
,
55
,
67
,
81
,
95
,
103
–
4
,
115
,
118
–
19
,
121
,
130
,
136
,
154
,
161
,
164
,
167
–
68
,
176
,
179
,
181
,
187

Emerson's Doctrine of Correspondences,
11
–
12
,
14
–
15
,
38
,
42
–
43
,
55
,
104

“Epidermal Macabre,”
6
,
44
–
45

Existentialism,
143
,
146
,
153
–
54

“The Exorcism,”
149
,
150

Expressive poetics,
30
–
37
passim

“The Exulting,”
152

The Far Field
,
4
,
10
–
11
,
15
,
43
,
46
,
80
,
119
,
121
,
130
,
147
,
158
,
159
,
160
–
84
passim

“The Far Field,”
165
–
68

“Feud,”
40

Field as symbol.
See
Symbolism

“A Field of Light,”
103
–
4
,
164

“First Meditation,”
154
–
55

“Flower Dump,”
78
,
79

“Four for Sir John Davies,”
15
,
37
,
130
,
140
–
43
,
161
,
178

“Fourth Meditation,”
156
–
57

“Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze,”
70
,
78
,
79

Freud, Sigmund,
51
,
57
,
58
–
60
,
61
,
67
,
68
,
72
,
82
–
83
,
113
,
119
,
123

Frost, Robert,
3
,
15
,
36
,
42
,
140
,
175

Frye, Northrop,
7
,
10

Gasgoigne, George,
140

“Genesis,”
20

“The Geranium,”
175

“Give Way, Ye Gates,”
113
–
14

Goodge, Barnabe,
140

Graves, Robert,
152
–
53

Greenhouse Eden.
See
Symbols

Greenhouse Sequence,
55
,
57
,
58
,
69
–
81
Passim

Greville, Fulke,
140

“Growth,”
70
–
71

Hartman, Geoffrey,
52
,
123

Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
4

“Heard in a Violent Wind,”
175

Hegel, G. W. F.,
35
,
41
,
44
,
52
,
57
,
72
,
165
,
169

Heilman, Robert,
109
,
134

Hemingway, Ernest,
111

“Her Becoming,”
155
–
56

Herder, J. G.,
35
,
54

“The Heron,”
43

“Her Reticence,”
171

“Her Time,”
171

“Her Words,”
171

Heyen, William,
174

“His Words,”
151

Hoffmann, Frederick J.,
160
–
61

Hopkins, Gerard Manley,
34
,
41
,
44
,
52
,
57
,
72
,
165
,
169
,
174
,
177

Hügel, Baron Friedrich von,
135

Hugo, Richard,
134

Hulme, T. E.,
38

Humphries, Rolfe,
20
–
22
,
30

“I Cry, Love! Love!”,
120
–
21
Ignatius,
83

“I Knew a Woman,”
145
,
146
–
47
,
148
,
171

Imagery.
See
Symbolism

Imagist poetry,
43

“I'm Here!”,
155

Imitation.
See
Roethke

“In a Dark Time,”
31
,
136
,
178
–
80

“I Need, I Need,”
112
–
13

“In Evening Air,”
180

“Infirmity,”
6
,
181

“I Waited,”
182

Job, the Book of,
91
,
103

Jonson, Ben,
146

“Journey to the Interior,”
164
,
165

Joyce, James,
109
,
122

Jung, Carl,
51
,
67
,
68
,
83
,
123
,
137
,
141

Kant, Immanuel,
54

Keats, John,
4
,
67
,
151
,
176

Keble, John,
33

Kermode, Frank,
31
,
35

Kizer, Carolyn,
134

Kunitz, Stanley,
25
–
28
,
30
,
38
,
73
,
178

La Belle, Jenijoy,
27
,
41
,
44
,
78
,
90
,
116
,
146
,
177

Lamb, Charles,
60

Lawrence, D. H.,
34
,
42
,
67
,
151
,
177

Levin, Harry,
122

Light as symbol.
See
Symbolism.

“A Light Breather,”
71