“The Light Comes Brighter,”
42
“Light Listened,”
171
“Long Live the Weeds,”
44
“The Long Waters,”
6
,
12
,
164
â
65
Lorca, Frederico Garcia,
24
The Lost Son
,
7
,
28
,
48
,
53
,
55
,
56
,
60
,
61
â
62
,
67
,
70
,
73
,
77
,
69
â
81
passim,
108
,
114
,
116
,
129
,
151
,
158
,
164
,
188
“The Lost Son,”
13
,
45
,
58
,
81
,
85
â
98
,
99
,
100
,
104
,
106
,
123
,
149
,
173
The “Lost Son” sequence,
4
,
10
,
46
,
59
,
60
,
61
,
80
,
69
â
81
passim,
108
â
23
passim,
137
,
152
,
154
,
166
Lovejoy, A. O.,
45
Lowell, Amy,
43
Loyola.
See
Ignatius
“Lull (
November, 1939
),”
47
Malkoff, Karl,
10
,
40
,
75
,
77
,
113
,
117
,
137
,
139
â
40
,
182
Malraux, André,
24
“The Manifestation,”
177
Mann, Thomas,
84
Marvell, Andrew,
146
Mask, Doctrine of the,
128
â
31
,
See also
Roethke, and imitation
“The Meadow Mouse,”
175
“Meditation at Oyster River,”
163
â
64
“Meditations of an Old Woman,”
139
,
153
â
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
“The Moment,”
177
Moschus,
138
“My Dim-Wit Cousin,”
46
Mysticism.
See
Roethke
Mythology.
See
Campbell, Joseph
Nature.
See
Romanticism
Nietzche, F. W.,
187
“North American Sequence,”
130
,
161
,
162
â
71
,
172
,
173
,
181
,
183
O'Connell, Beatrice Heath (Roethke),
132
â
33
,
137
The Odyssey
(Homer),
10
“Old Florist,”
78
“Old Lady's Winter Words,”
139
â
40
,
155
“Once More, the Round,”
130
â
31
,
183
“On the Road to Woodlawn,”
45
Open House
,
4
,
7
,
20
,
24
,
28
,
30
,
38
â
48
passim,
51
,
55
,
61
,
70
,
73
,
79
,
129
,
158
Organicism.
See
Romanticism
Orwell, George,
24
“The Other,”
145
“O, Thou Opening, O,”
108
,
121
â
23
Paget, Sir Richard,
56
Pearce, Roy Harvey,
116
Peers, E. Allison,
135
“Pickle Belt,”
80
Plato,
23
,
31
,
136
,
137
,
140
,
144
,
180
Poet-as-prophet.
See
Romanticism
Praise to the End
!
,
4
,
15
,
108
â
23
passim,
129
,
153
,
172
Praise to the End
!
sequence,
41
,
60
â
61
,
158
“The Premonition,”
41
Psychoanalysis.
See
Roethke; Romanticism
Quest patterns.
See Romanticism
.
Ralegh, Sir Walter,
140
Regresson.
See
Roethke
“The Renewal,”
149
“Reply to a Lady Editor,”
144
“The Restored,”
182
“The Return,”
173
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
â
80
,
87
,
91
,
94
,
129
,
149
,
161
,
169
,
174
,
182
Roethke, Theodore: ancestry of,
11
; apprenticeship of,
17
â
29
passim; and concreteness,
5
,
6
,
9
â
10
,
23
,
34
,
70
,
71
,
172
â
173
; and imitation,
3
â
4
,
26
â
28
,
44
,
45
,
47
; marriage,
132
â
33
; and mysticism,
46
,
135
â
37
,
69
â
81
passim; and psychoanalysis,
7
â
8
,
40
â
41
,
59
â
61
,
67
â
68
,
82
â
84
; and regression,
55
,
59
â
62
,
68
,
70
,
82
â
96
,
98
,
109
;
117
,
118
; and relationship with father,
8
â
9
,
62
,
79
â
80
,
81
,
87
,
91
,
94
,
99
,
110
,
111
,
149
,
161
,
174
â
75
; and self-expression,
17
â
18
,
45
â
46
,
52
â
53
,
110
; as teacher,
133
â
35
; working methods,
30
â
37
passim,
135
â
38
,
See also
Romanticism
Roethke, Wilhelm (Roethke's grandfather),
18
Romanticism: American manifestations of,
4
,
5
,
111
,
130
; and autobiography,
4
,
57
,
30
,
33
â
34
,
51
â
53
passim; and childhood,
58
,
67
,
80
â
81
,
111
,
123
,
174
â
75
; and contrarieties,
12
â
13
,
35
â
36
,
42
,
69
â
70
,
74
,
144
,
154
â
55
,
159
, and expressive theory of poetry,
30
â
37
passim,
56
â
57
; and nature,
4
â
5
,
67
â
68
,
75
â
76
,
78
,
80
â
81
,
95
,
118
â
19
,
154
; and organicism,
5
â
6
,
35
â
36
,
54
â
55
; and poet-as-prophet and visionary,
30
â
31
,
36
â
37
; and psychoanalysis,
7
,
58
â
60
,
See also
Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Roethke, Theodore, and self-expression
“Root Cellar,”
73
Rose as symbol.
See
Symbolism
St. John of the Cross,
172
,
180
,
182
St. Theresa,
180
Schlegel, A. W.,
33
Scotus, Duns,
177
“The Sententious Man,”
147
â
48
“Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical,”
130
,
161
,
178
â
83
“The Shape of the Fire,”
14
,
104
â
7
,
116
Shapiro, Karl, 15 “She,”
145
Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
31
,
32
,
138
“The Small,”
150
Smart, Christopher,
109
,
110
,
133
,
175
“Song,”
171
Song of Solomon,
142
Spender, Stephen,
24
Spenser, Edmund,
142
Stevens, Wallace,
3
,
4
,
5
â
6
,
15
,
57
,
77
,
93
,
145
,
153
,
157
â
58
,
167
,
168
,
176
,
187
“The Storm,”
176
Sullivan, Rosemary,
8
,
45
,
73
,
99
,
105
,
119
,
166
,
182
“The Swan,”
145
Symbolism,
4
,
8
â
9
,
39
,
55
,
69
â
70
,
76
,
92
,
96
,
106
â
7
,
113
â
14
,
137
,
147
,
152
, â
62
â
64
,
167
,
169
,
183