In one of his poems this author speaks of "English poets who grew up on Greek," claiming, "I'd have them sing in chorus, cheek to cheek," and he asked, "What's madness but nobility of soul/At odds with circumstance" in another poem.  In the first chapter of Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut claims he took this man's poetry to read on a plane, including a villanelle that asks, "We think by feeling. What is there to know?" Longer poems include The Lost Son, and he talks about the whiskey on the breath of the title character in "My Papa's Waltz."  In a better-known poem he describes the "neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils" of a girl who was "my student, thrown by a horse."  For 10 points name this author of "The Waking" and "Elegy for Jane."
In one of his poems this author speaks of "English poets who grew up on Greek," claiming, "I'd have them sing in chorus, cheek to cheek," and he asked, "What's madness but nobility of soul/At odds with circumstance" in another poem.  In the first chapter of Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut claims he took this man's poetry to read on a plane, including a villanelle that asks, "We think by feeling. What is there to know?" Longer poems include The Lost Son, and he talks about the whiskey on the breath of the title character in "My Papa's Waltz."  In a better-known poem he describes the "neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils" of a girl who was "my student, thrown by a horse."  For 10 points name this author of "The Waking" and "Elegy for Jane."
In one of his poems this author speaks of "English poets who grew up on Greek," claiming, "I'd have them sing in chorus, cheek to cheek," and he asked, "What's madness but nobility of soul/
Theodore Roethke