Theodore Roethke
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Theodore Roethke was born on May 25, 1908, in Saginaw, Michigan. Growing up, Roethke spent a lot of time in the greenhouse that was owned by his father and uncle. Later these images played a large part in his writing. Throughout the years he taught at Harvard, Michigan State, Penn State, Bennington College, and Washington State. A lot of Roethke's poetry was published in 1941 in Open House, which he got a Guggenheim Fellowship for in 1945. In 1948 he published his second book called The Lost Son. He published many other works, including The Waking, which he got a Pulitzer Prize for. He died in1963.
Roethke's best works are said to be his poems that incorporate his childhood memories of his father's greenhouse. He was a manic-depressive and continued to write poetry through both phases, which could explain the major differences in his style and content...