id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2989 Theodore Roethke - Wikipedia .html text/html 3124 325 69 Roethke was praised by former U.S. Poet Laureate and author James Dickey as "in my opinion the greatest poet this country has yet produced."[5] He was also a respected poetry teacher, and taught at the University of Washington for fifteen years. In 1961, "The Return" was featured on George Abbe's album Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry on Folkways Records.[11] The following year, Roethke released his own album on the label entitled, Words for the Wind: Poems of Theodore Roethke.[12] In addition to the well-known greenhouse poems, the Poetry Foundation notes that Roethke also won praise "for his love poems which first appeared in The Waking and earned their own section in the new book and 'were a distinct departure from the painful excavations of the monologues and in some respects a return to the strict stanzaic forms of the earliest work,' [according to the poet] Stanley Kunitz. In 1967 Roethke's Collected Poems topped the lists of two of the three Pulitzer Prize poetry voters; Phyllis McGinley and Louis Simpson. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2989.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2989.txt