Theodore Roethke (33 page)

“The Light Comes Brighter,”
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“Light Listened,”
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“The Lizard,”
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“The Long Alley,”
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“The Longing,”
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“Long Live the Weeds,”
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“The Long Waters,”
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Lorca, Frederico Garcia,
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The Lost Son
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“The Lost Son,”
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The “Lost Son” sequence,
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Lovejoy, A. O.,
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“Love Poems,”
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Lowell, Amy,
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Lowell, Robert,
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Loyola.
See
Ignatius

“Lull (
November, 1939
),”
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Mcintosh, James,
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Malkoff, Karl,
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Malraux, André,
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“The Manifestation,”
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Mann, Thomas,
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“The Marrow,”
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Martz, Louis L.,
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Marvell, Andrew,
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Mask, Doctrine of the,
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See also
Roethke, and imitation

“The Meadow Mouse,”
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“Meditation at Oyster River,”
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“Meditations of an Old Woman,”
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Melville, Herman,
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“Mid-Country Blow,”
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Mills, Ralph J., Jr.,
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Milton, John,
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“Mixed Sequence,”
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“The Moment,”
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Moschus,
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“Moss-Gathering,”
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“The Motion,”
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“My Dim-Wit Cousin,”
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Mysticism.
See
Roethke

Mythology.
See
Campbell, Joseph

Nature.
See
Romanticism

Nietzche, F. W.,
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“Night Journey,”
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“No Bird,”
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“North American Sequence,”
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O'Connell, Beatrice Heath (Roethke),
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The Odyssey
(Homer),
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“Old Florist,”
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“Old Lady's Winter Words,”
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“O Lull Me, Lull Me,”
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“Once More, the Round,”
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“On the Road to Woodlawn,”
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Open House
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“Open House,”
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“Orchids,”
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Organicism.
See
Romanticism

Orwell, George,
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“The Other,”
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“O, Thou Opening, O,”
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Paget, Sir Richard,
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“The Partners,”
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Pearce, Roy Harvey,
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Peers, E. Allison,
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“Pickle Belt,”
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“The Pike,”
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Plato,
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Plotinus,
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Poet-as-prophet.
See
Romanticism

Pound, Ezra,
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Praise to the End
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Praise to the End
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sequence,
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“Praise to the End!”,
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“The Premonition,”
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“Prognosis,”
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“Propagation,”
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Psychoanalysis.
See
Roethke; Romanticism

“The Pure Fury,”
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148

Quest patterns.
See Romanticism
.

Ralegh, Sir Walter,
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Ransom, John Crowe,
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Regresson.
See
Roethke

“The Renewal,”
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“Reply to a Lady Editor,”
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“The Restored,”
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“The Return,”
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Richard of St. Victor,
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Richards, I. A.,
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“The Right Thing,”
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Rilke, R. M.,
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Roethke, Beatrice (Roethke's wife).
See
O'Connell, Beatrice Heath

Roethke, Helen Heubner (Roethke's mother),
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Roethke, Otto (Roethke's father),
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Roethke, Theodore: ancestry of,
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See also
Romanticism

Roethke, Wilhelm (Roethke's grandfather),
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Romanticism: American manifestations of,
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See also
Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Roethke, Theodore, and self-expression

“Root Cellar,”
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“The Rose,”
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Rose as symbol.
See
Symbolism

St. John of the Cross,
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St. Theresa,
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Schelling, F. W. J.,
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Schlegel, A. W.,
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Scotus, Duns,
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Seager, Allan,
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“Sensibility! O La!”,
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“The Sententious Man,”
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“The Sequel,”
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“Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical,”
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Shakespeare, William,
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“The Shape of the Fire,”
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Shapiro, Karl, 15 “She,”
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
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“The Signals,”
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“The Siskins,”
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“Slow Season,”
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“Slug,”
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“The Small,”
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Smart, Christopher,
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Smith, A.J. M.,
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“Snake,”
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“Song,”
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Song of Solomon,
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Spender, Stephen,
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Spenser, Edmund,
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Staples, Hugh B.,
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Stein, Arnold,
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Stevens, Wallace,
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“The Storm,”
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Sullivan, Rosemary,
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“The Swan,”
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Symbolism,
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