This first name of poet Roethke means "gift of God"
[DOC] [TLE] Theodore: Meaning Of Name Theodore | Nameberry.com [PAR] Gender: M Meaning of Theodore: "gift of God" Origin of Theodore: Greek ... 
novelist Dreiser, poet Roethke, and French painter Gericault, and it was the first 
name... [DOC] [TLE] "God's gift."