Theodore Roethke
Subtitle: The Garden Master
Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
Published: January 1976
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780295954295
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Philosophy; 1908-1963; Criticism and interpretation; Roethke, Theodore; Roethke, Theodore,; Poetry
Description: The generic self was Theodore Roethke's theme and few have so thoroughly explored the extremes of feeling: the blind inchoate longings of the inarticulate unconscious never very far from pure terror, and the oracular, half-ecstatic moments of mystical intuition when "I" and "other" were brought into a white-hot fusion of identity. Yet what moves most was his commitment to life. His ambition was always to "dive deeper into the material, substantiate."--Preface.