The Far Field is a 1964 poetry collection by Theodore Roethke, and the poem for which it was named. It was Roethke's final collection, published after his death in 1963.[1]
The book is divided into four sections: "North American Sequence", "Love Poems", "Mixed Sequence", and "Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical".[2] The Far Field contains several of Roethke's best known works, including the title poem "The Far Field", "Meditation at Oyster River", "Journey to the Interior", and "The Rose".[1] It received the National Book Award for Poetry in 1965.[3]
Notes edit
- ^ a b Parini, Jay (2017). "Theodore Roethke". In Noel-Tod, Jeremy; Hamilton, Ian (eds.). The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English. Oxford University Press. pp. 525–526. ISBN 978-0199640256. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
- ^ Southworth, James G. (February 1966). "Theodore Roethke: The Far Field". College English. 27 (5): 413–418. doi:10.2307/373265. JSTOR 373265.
- ^ "Theodore Roethke". www.poetryfoundation.org. Poetry Foundation. 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
References edit
- Balakian, Peter (1999-03-01). Theodore Roethke's Far Fields: The Evolution of His Poetry. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807124543.
- Quetchenbach, Bernard W. (2000-01-01). Back from the Far Field: American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century. University of Virginia Press. p. 29. ISBN 9780813919546.
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- McCorkle, James (1990-01-01). Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0814321003.
- Parini, Jay (2017). "Theodore Roethke". In Noel-Tod, Jeremy; Hamilton, Ian (eds.). The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199640256. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
- Southworth, James G. (February 1966). "Theodore Roethke: The Far Field". College English. 27 (5): 413–418. doi:10.2307/373265. JSTOR 373265.
Further reading edit
- Roethke, Theodore (1964). The Far Field. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385046923.
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