BIB_ID
414936
Accession number
MA 22205.2
Creator
Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963, author.
Display Date
State College, Pennsylvania, 1936?
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28.3 x 21.8 cm
Notes
Typescript for the poem "Genesis" by Theodore Roethke which was first published in The Nation, June 24, 1936 and later published in the final draft in Roethke's "Open house" in 1941.
Inscription by Roethke in green ink below text: "New lyric. That four burlas(?) was a present, your graceless past. I love you. Ted."
Roethke taught at Pennsylvania State University from 1936 to 1943, publishing in such prestigious journals as Poetry, the New Republic, the Saturday Review, and Sewanee Review.
Inscription by Roethke in green ink below text: "New lyric. That four burlas(?) was a present, your graceless past. I love you. Ted."
Roethke taught at Pennsylvania State University from 1936 to 1943, publishing in such prestigious journals as Poetry, the New Republic, the Saturday Review, and Sewanee Review.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
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