biography
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Roethke, Theodore (Huebner)
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pronunciation:
[retkuh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1908–63)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Saginaw, Michigan, USA. He studied at Michigan and Harvard universities, then taught at Pennsylvania State, Bennington, and Washington. It was not until the publication of his fourth volume, The Waking (1953, Pulitzer) that he became widely known. Words for the Wind (1958) is a selection from his first four books; his Collected Poems appeared posthumously in 1968. |
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