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1908
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1923
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1925
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1929
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1930
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1930 - 1934
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While at Lafayette Roethke meets his first lover, Mary Kunkel.
He also publishes three of his poems in The Harp.
1935
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He has a series of mental breakdowns that gave him inspiration.
1936 - 1943
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He falls in love with the university librarian, Kitty Stokes.
She encourages him to publish a book.
1941
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1943
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He has a number of relationships there, one of which with a student.
When he was about to be dismissed, he decides to quit.
At his time there, he finishes most of his material for his second book.
1945
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He takes time off to work on the material for his second book.
He had another bout of depression and received electroshock therapy.
1947 - 1949
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While in Seattle has a brief relationship with Jerry Lee Willis in the English department.
1948
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1949
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Spent the summer in Saginaw to work on his third book.
Upon his return he gets admitted for the stress he placed on himself to complete his third book.
1950
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1951
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1952
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Beatrice was his former student in Bennington College.
They honeymoon in Europe.
They were reunited at a poetry reading in New York.
1953
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1953
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He sufferd a minor mental breakdown and then three months later his mother dies.
1957
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He also hospitalized for three months after having another breakdown.
1958
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They are awarded for his book, Words for the Wind.
1958
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1961
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1962
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He was unable to revise it before his death.
1962
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From the University of Michigan.
1963
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He suffered from it in a friend's swimming pool in Washington.
His body was buried with his mother and father in Saginaw, Michigan.