392 INDEX
Rexroth, Kenneth (continued )
212–13; “Incarnation,” 215; In Defense of
Earth,215; “Mary and the Seasons,” 215;
“Toward an Organic Philosophy,” 213;
and Tu Fu, 211–15
Rhyme, 3, 28–29, 71; in Bishop, 229–30, 232–
33; Coleridge, 41; Dickinson, 29, 78, 80,
82–83, 86, 117, 143–44; Frost, 117, 120–25,
128; Hardy, 90–91, 93, 325; Hopkins, 95–
96; Hughes, 328; Keats, 53–54, 58; Kumin,
292; Kunitz, 203, 209; Levertov, 8, 269, 271;
Lowell, 260–61, 263–64; Millay, 187–88,
191; Moore, 177, 179, 181–82, 187; Roethke,
219–20; Stafford, 252–53, 255; Stevens, 138;
Swenson, 246; Walcott, 338–39, 341; “West-
ern Wind,” 3, 30–31; Williams, 145; Yeats,
107–8
Rhythm (cadence), in Ammons, 294; Chaucer,
3; Coleridge, 42, 44; Frost, 117, 119–20;
Haines, 284; Hardy, 90–91; Hopkins, 98–
99; Jeffers, 172, 175; Kaufman, 280; Keats,
54; Lowell, 260, 264; Millay, 188, 191, 356;
Roethke, 219; Stafford, 253, 257; Stevens,
138; Swenson, 242; Thomas, 132; “Western
Wind,” 28–30; Whitman, 71–72, 144;
Williams, 145; Yeats, 105
Rich, Adrienne, 172–73, 328–29
Riddles, 82, 241–42
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 52, 218, 268, 269
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
(Coleridge), 29, 30, 165, 209
Riprap(Snyder), 344, 350–51
River of Words project, 355
Rivers. See Water
“The Road Not Taken” (Frost), 126, 135
“Rock and Hawk” (Jeffers), 172, 329
Rocks (Stones), in Ammons, 297; Haines,
287; Hall, 323; Hughes, 332; Jeffers, 171,
172, 174, 175; Kaufman, 276; Kunitz, 204–
6; Merwin, 307; Millay, 187–88; Neruda,
195, 197–99, 201, 356; paintings on, 165,
286, 288–89; Snyder, 221, 347, 350–51, 353;
Staff ord, 251; tied to words, 1, 172, 221,
289; Yeats, 109, 111, 183, 289, 348
Rocky Mountains, 136–37, 139, 140
Roethke, Theodore, 216–22, 257, 329, 366–
67; “The Cow,” 218; “Cuttings,” 216, 219;
“Cuttings (later),” 217; “The Dance,”
219; “His Foreboding,” 219; “I Knew a
Woman,” 220; “In a Dark Time,” 220;
“The Longing,” 221; North American Se-
quence, 220, 221–22; and other poets, 208,
219, 225, 245, 261, 310; “Root Cellar,”
217; “The Rose,” 221–22; “Words for the
Wind,” 218–19
Rogers, Pattiann, 357
Romantic poets, 35, 66, 348. See also Specific
poets
“Root Cellar” (Roethke), 217
“Roots in the Air” (Kaufman), 275, 281
“The Rose” (Roethke), 221–22
Rosenberg, Isaac, 133, 271
“A Route of Evanescence” (Dickinson),
78–79, 242
Rukeyser, Muriel, 215
Rumphius, Georg Eberhard, 301, 302, 308Sacco and Vanzetti, 159, 189–92
“Sailing to Byzantium” (Yeats), 109
“Saint Francis and the Sow” (Kinnell), 310–11
St. Thomas (Caribbean), 338–42
Salisbury Plain (England), 132
Sand County Almanac (Leopold), 349
San Francisco (California), 115–16, 215, 275,
344, 346
Santarém (Brazil), 238, 356
Sappho (poet), 214
Sarah (Biblical figure), 276, 277
Schneour Zalman, 267
“Schoolboys in Winter” (Clare), 58
“The Seafarer” (Anglo-Saxon poem), 32, 303,
330
The Seasons (Thomson), 57
Seattle (Indian chief ), 6, 221
Seattle (Washington), 273, 275, 344, 348, 355
“The Second Coming” (Yeats), 108, 175, 218
Seeing.See Recognition
“Serenata” (Neruda), 196
“17 February 1974” (Hughes), 333–34
Sexton, Anne, 292
Shakespeare, William, 4, 23, 49, 186, 242, 293;
as influence, 52, 73, 78, 109, 117, 143, 146,
182, 185, 186–87, 211, 296, 336; metaphors
in, 146, 214
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 31, 52, 67, 185, 218
Shoshone Indians, 12
Sierra Club, 104, 170
Sierra Nevada, Rexroth on, 213–14; Snyder in,
344, 352; Stafford in, 251
Silent Spring (Carson), xiv, 10, 13, 160, 303,
352
“The Silken Tent” (Frost), 127–28
Similes (Analogies), in Bishop, 232, 236;
Burns, 32; Coleridge, 43; Frost, 128; Hall,