8
.   Underhill,
Mysticism
, pp. 288â89.
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
.  Â
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): 189â219.
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, 42â210, 1962.
INDEX
“The Abyss,”
12
â
13
,
153
,
172
â
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
Bion,
138
Blake, William,
3
,
6
,
8
,
12
,
13
,
15
,
19
,
31
,
35
â
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
Bogan, Louise,
22
â
25
,
30
,
38
,
41
,
45
“Bring the Day!”,
113
Brown, Norman O.,
7
,
8
,
57
,
58
â
59
,
119
,
121
Burke, Kenneth,
7
,
28
,
51
,
53
,
55
â
62
,
68
,
69
,
76
,
77
,
96
â
98
,
101
â
3
,
105
,
106
Campbell, Joseph,
84
â
85
,
87
,
89
,
129
Carlyle, Thomas,
37
“Carnations,”
79
“Child on Top of a Greenhouse,”
78
â
79
Childhood.
See
Romanticism
“The Chums,”
175
Coleridge, Samuel T.,
10
,
12
,
30
,
35
,
54
â
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 (
later),”
71
,
72
â
73
,
75
“The Dance,”
141
Davies, Sir John,
132
,
140
â
41
,
143
,
158
,
159
“The Decision,”
181
De Quincey, Thomas,
104
Deutsch, Babette,
178
Dialectics.
See
Romanticism, contrarieties
Dickey, James,
111
Donne, John,
41
“Double Feature,”
80
Eberhart, Richard,
15
“Elegy for Jane,”
45
,
137
â
39
,
174
,
179
Eliade, Mircea,
82
,
85
,
86
,
89
,
90
â
92
,
93
Eliot, T. S.,
15
,
36
,
38
,
44
,
83
,
94
â
96
,
151
,
162
â
64
,
166
â
68
,
170
,
172
â
73
,
180
Ellmann, Richard,
128
Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
3
â
5
,
9
,
11
,
13
â
15
,
19
â
20
,
23
,
30
â
31
,
34
â
37
,
48
,
55
,
67
,
81
,
95
,
103
â
4
,
115
,
118
â
19
,
121
,
130
,
136
,
154
,
161
,
164
,
167
â
68
,
176
,
179
,
181
,
187
Emerson's Doctrine of Correspondences,
11
â
12
,
14
â
15
,
38
,
42
â
43
,
55
,
104
Existentialism,
143
,
146
,
153
â
54
Expressive poetics,
30
â
37
passim
“The Exulting,”
152
The Far Field
,
4
,
10
â
11
,
15
,
43
,
46
,
80
,
119
,
121
,
130
,
147
,
158
,
159
,
160
â
84
passim
“Feud,”
40
Field as symbol.
See
Symbolism
“A Field of Light,”
103
â
4
,
164
“Four for Sir John Davies,”
15
,
37
,
130
,
140
â
43
,
161
,
178
“Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze,”
70
,
78
,
79
Freud, Sigmund,
51
,
57
,
58
â
60
,
61
,
67
,
68
,
72
,
82
â
83
,
113
,
119
,
123
Frost, Robert,
3
,
15
,
36
,
42
,
140
,
175
Gasgoigne, George,
140
“Genesis,”
20
“The Geranium,”
175
Goodge, Barnabe,
140
Greenhouse Eden.
See
Symbols
Greenhouse Sequence,
55
,
57
,
58
,
69
â
81
Passim
Greville, Fulke,
140
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
4
“Heard in a Violent Wind,”
175
Hegel, G. W. F.,
35
,
41
,
44
,
52
,
57
,
72
,
165
,
169
Hemingway, Ernest,
111
“The Heron,”
43
“Her Reticence,”
171
“Her Time,”
171
“Her Words,”
171
Heyen, William,
174
“His Words,”
151
Hoffmann, Frederick J.,
160
â
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
“I Cry, Love! Love!”,
120
â
21
Ignatius,
83
“I Knew a Woman,”
145
,
146
â
47
,
148
,
171
Imagery.
See
Symbolism
Imagist poetry,
43
“I'm Here!”,
155
Imitation.
See
Roethke
“In a Dark Time,”
31
,
136
,
178
â
80
“In Evening Air,”
180
“I Waited,”
182
Jonson, Ben,
146
“Journey to the Interior,”
164
,
165
Jung, Carl,
51
,
67
,
68
,
83
,
123
,
137
,
141
Kant, Immanuel,
54
Keble, John,
33
Kizer, Carolyn,
134
Kunitz, Stanley,
25
â
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