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“The Light Comes Brighter,”
42

“Light Listened,”
171

“The Lizard,”
175
,
177

“The Long Alley,”
98
–
103
,
116

“The Longing,”
162
,
168

“Long Live the Weeds,”
44

“The Long Waters,”
6
,
12
,
164
–
65

Lorca, Frederico Garcia,
24

The Lost Son
,
7
,
28
,
48
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53
,
55
,
56
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60
,
61
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62
,
67
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70
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73
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77
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69
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81
passim,
108
,
114
,
116
,
129
,
151
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158
,
164
,
188

“The Lost Son,”
13
,
45
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58
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81
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85
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98
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99
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100
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104
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106
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123
,
149
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173

The “Lost Son” sequence,
4
,
10
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46
,
59
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60
,
61
,
80
,
69
–
81
passim,
108
–
23
passim,
137
,
152
,
154
,
166

Lovejoy, A. O.,
45

“Love Poems,”
161
,
171
–
72

Lowell, Amy,
43

Lowell, Robert,
15
,
43

Loyola.
See
Ignatius

“Lull (
November, 1939
),”
47

Mcintosh, James,
5
,
14

Malkoff, Karl,
10
,
40
,
75
,
77
,
113
,
117
,
137
,
139
–
40
,
182

Malraux, André,
24

“The Manifestation,”
177

Mann, Thomas,
84

“The Marrow,”
181
–
82

Martz, Louis L.,
5
,
107

Marvell, Andrew,
146

Mask, Doctrine of the,
128
–
31
,
See also
Roethke, and imitation

“The Meadow Mouse,”
175

“Meditation at Oyster River,”
163
–
64

“Meditations of an Old Woman,”
139
,
153
–
58
,
161

Melville, Herman,
4

“Mid-Country Blow,”
42

Mills, Ralph J., Jr.,
19
,
31
,
109
,
130
,
158
,
162
,
178

Milton, John,
10
,
36
,
106
,
138
,
142
,
158

“Mixed Sequence,”
161
,
172
–
77

“The Moment,”
177

Moschus,
138

“Moss-Gathering,”
75
–
76
,
77

“The Motion,”
180
–
81

“My Dim-Wit Cousin,”
46

Mysticism.
See
Roethke

Mythology.
See
Campbell, Joseph

Nature.
See
Romanticism

Nietzche, F. W.,
187

“Night Journey,”
47
–
48

“No Bird,”
42
,
43
–
44

“North American Sequence,”
130
,
161
,
162
–
71
,
172
,
173
,
181
,
183

O'Connell, Beatrice Heath (Roethke),
132
–
33
,
137

The Odyssey
(Homer),
10

“Old Florist,”
78

“Old Lady's Winter Words,”
139
–
40
,
155

“O Lull Me, Lull Me,”
115
–
16

“Once More, the Round,”
130
–
31
,
183

“On the Road to Woodlawn,”
45

Open House
,
4
,
7
,
20
,
24
,
28
,
30
,
38
–
48
passim,
51
,
55
,
61
,
70
,
73
,
79
,
129
,
158

“Open House,”
22
,
39
,
53

“Orchids,”
74
–
75

Organicism.
See
Romanticism

Orwell, George,
24

“The Other,”
145

“O, Thou Opening, O,”
108
,
121
–
23

Paget, Sir Richard,
56

“The Partners,”
141
–
42

Pearce, Roy Harvey,
116

Peers, E. Allison,
135

“Pickle Belt,”
80

“The Pike,”
176
–
77

Plato,
23
,
31
,
136
,
137
,
140
,
144
,
180

Plotinus,
170
,
182

Poet-as-prophet.
See
Romanticism

Pound, Ezra,
10
,
35
,
38
,
43

Praise to the End
!
,
4
,
15
,
108
–
23
passim,
129
,
153
,
172

Praise to the End
!
sequence,
41
,
60
–
61
,
158

“Praise to the End!”,
116
–
18

“The Premonition,”
41

“Prognosis,”
40
–
41

“Propagation,”
71
–
72

Psychoanalysis.
See
Roethke; Romanticism

“The Pure Fury,”
137
,
148

Quest patterns.
See Romanticism
.

Ralegh, Sir Walter,
140

Ransom, John Crowe,
15
,
178

Regresson.
See
Roethke

“The Renewal,”
149

“Reply to a Lady Editor,”
144

“The Restored,”
182

“The Return,”
173

Richard of St. Victor,
179
,
180

Richards, I. A.,
20
,
33
,
34
,
36

“The Right Thing,”
182
–
83

Rilke, R. M.,
52

Roethke, Beatrice (Roethke's wife).
See
O'Connell, Beatrice Heath

Roethke, Helen Heubner (Roethke's mother),
19
,
80
,
153

Roethke, Otto (Roethke's father),
4
,
8
,
9
,
18
,
79
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80
,
87
,
91
,
94
,
129
,
149
,
161
,
169
,
174
,
182

Roethke, Theodore: ancestry of,
11
; apprenticeship of,
17
–
29
passim; and concreteness,
5
,
6
,
9
–
10
,
23
,
34
,
70
,
71
,
172
–
173
; and imitation,
3
–
4
,
26
–
28
,
44
,
45
,
47
; marriage,
132
–
33
; and mysticism,
46
,
135
–
37
,
69
–
81
passim; and psychoanalysis,
7
–
8
,
40
–
41
,
59
–
61
,
67
–
68
,
82
–
84
; and regression,
55
,
59
–
62
,
68
,
70
,
82
–
96
,
98
,
109
;
117
,
118
; and relationship with father,
8
–
9
,
62
,
79
–
80
,
81
,
87
,
91
,
94
,
99
,
110
,
111
,
149
,
161
,
174
–
75
; and self-expression,
17
–
18
,
45
–
46
,
52
–
53
,
110
; as teacher,
133
–
35
; working methods,
30
–
37
passim,
135
–
38
,
See also
Romanticism

Roethke, Wilhelm (Roethke's grandfather),
18

Romanticism: American manifestations of,
4
,
5
,
111
,
130
; and autobiography,
4
,
57
,
30
,
33
–
34
,
51
–
53
passim; and childhood,
58
,
67
,
80
–
81
,
111
,
123
,
174
–
75
; and contrarieties,
12
–
13
,
35
–
36
,
42
,
69
–
70
,
74
,
144
,
154
–
55
,
159
, and expressive theory of poetry,
30
–
37
passim,
56
–
57
; and nature,
4
–
5
,
67
–
68
,
75
–
76
,
78
,
80
–
81
,
95
,
118
–
19
,
154
; and organicism,
5
–
6
,
35
–
36
,
54
–
55
; and poet-as-prophet and visionary,
30
–
31
,
36
–
37
; and psychoanalysis,
7
,
58
–
60
,
See also
Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Roethke, Theodore, and self-expression

“Root Cellar,”
73

“The Rose,”
15
,
168
–
71
,
180

Rose as symbol.
See
Symbolism

St. John of the Cross,
172
,
180
,
182

St. Theresa,
180

Schelling, F. W. J.,
14
,
54

Schlegel, A. W.,
33

Scotus, Duns,
177

Seager, Allan,
19
,
20

“Sensibility! O La!”,
114
–
15

“The Sententious Man,”
147
–
48

“The Sequel,”
180
–
81

“Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical,”
130
,
161
,
178
–
83

Shakespeare, William,
57
,
148

“The Shape of the Fire,”
14
,
104
–
7
,
116

Shapiro, Karl, 15 “She,”
145

Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
31
,
32
,
138

“The Signals,”
41
–
42

“The Siskins,”
150
–
51

“Slow Season,”
42
–
43

“Slug,”
150
–
51

“The Small,”
150

Smart, Christopher,
109
,
110
,
133
,
175

Smith, A.J. M.,
132
–
33

“Snake,”
6
,
150
–
51

“Song,”
171

Song of Solomon,
142

Spender, Stephen,
24

Spenser, Edmund,
142

Staples, Hugh B.,
162
,
171

Stein, Arnold,
109
,
110
,
133
,
175

Stevens, Wallace,
3
,
4
,
5
–
6
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15
,
57
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77
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93
,
145
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153
,
157
–
58
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167
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168
,
176
,
187

“The Storm,”
176

Sullivan, Rosemary,
8
,
45
,
73
,
99
,
105
,
119
,
166
,
182

“The Swan,”
145

Symbolism,
4
,
8
–
9
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39
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55
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69
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70
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76
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92
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96
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106
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7
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113
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14
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137
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147
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152
, ‘
62
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64
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167
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169
,
183

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