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“They Sing, They Sing,”
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“The Thing,”
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Thomas, Dylan,
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Thoreau, Henry David,
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“Transplanting,”
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“The Tree, The Bird,”
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Tree as symbol.
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Symbolism

Trilling, Lionel,
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Twain, Mark,
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Underhill, Evelyn,
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“Unfold! Unfold!”,
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Valéry, Paul,
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Vaughan, Henry,
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“Verse in Rehearsal,”
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Very, Jones,
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“The Vigil,”
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“The Visitant,”
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“The Voice,”
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“Voices and Creatures,”
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Wagoner, David,
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The Waking
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“The Waking,” from
The Waking
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“The Waking,” from
The Lost Son
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“A Walk in Late Summer,”
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“The Wall,”
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“Weed Puller,”
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“What Can I Tell My Bones?”,
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“What Now?”,
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“Where Knock Is Open Wide,”
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Whitman, Walt,
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Wimsatt, W. K.,
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Wind as symbol.
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Symbolism

Winslow, Ann,
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Winters, Yvor,
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“Wish for a Young Wife,”
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Woman as symbol.
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Symbolism

Wordsforthe Wind
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“Words for the Wind,”
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Wordsworth, William,
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“The Wraith,”
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Wright, James,
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Wylie, Elinor,
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Yeats, William Butler,
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Parini, Jay.

Theodore Roethke, an American romantic.

Includes index.

I. Roethke, Theodore, 1908–1963—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Romanticism—United States.

I. Title.

PS3535.039Z76      811'.5'4      79–4022

ISBN 0–87023–270–3