Educated in English literature, medicine, and New York: Random House, 1935. Used with the permission of the publishers, Stanford University Press. Sometime before this, he and Una had begun an affair that became a scandal, reaching the front page of the Los Angeles Times in 1912. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmental movement. Robinson Jeffers: Selected Poems Robinson Jeffers. Ascent … Share it with your friends: Make comments, explore modern poetry. 88–95. Inhumanism Jeffers coined the phrase inhumanism, the belief that mankind is too self-centered and too indifferent to the "astonishing beauty of things." Hardcover. The couple had a daughter who died a day after birth in 1914, and then twin sons in 1916. The human dilemmas of Phaedra, Hippolytus, and Medea fascinated him. Stanford University Press recently released a five-volume collection of the complete works of Robinson Jeffers. New York: Random House, 1963. Some expect a revival in Jeffers' work in the near future, especially with the 2001 publication of his collected poems by Stanford University Press and the rising popularity of ecocriticism in literary theory. He later built a large four-story stone tower on the site called Hawk Tower, based on similar structures he had seen while traveling through Ireland. Other books of criticism and poetry by Jeffers are: Poetry, Gongorism and a Thousand Years (1949), Themes in My Poems (1956), Robinson Jeffers: Selected Poems (1965), The Alpine Christ and Other Poems (1974), What Odd Expedients" and Other Poems (1981), and Rock and Hawk: A Selection of Shorter Poems by Robinson Jeffers (1987). Robinson Jeffers, one of the most controversial U.S. poets of the 20th century, for whom all things except his pantheistically conceived God are transient, and human life is viewed as a frantic, often contemptible struggle within a net of passions. These poems, including Tamar and Roan Stallion, introduced Jeffers as a master of the epic form, reminiscent of ancient Greek poets. New York: Liveright, 1927. Stamp. Find and share the perfect poems. Los Angeles: Grafton, 1912. At the peak of his fame, he was one of the few poets to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine. * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. New York: Peter G. Boyle, 1924. I-V, The Complete Set, The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volume One: 1920-1928, Stones of the Sur: Poetry by Robinson Jeffers, Photographs by Morley Baer, I Cannot Lie by Your Fire: In Memory of Man's Best Friend, Jeffers country;: The seed plots of Robinson Jeffers' poetry, The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volume Four: Poetry 1903-1920, Prose, and Unpublished Writings, The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers Vol 5: Volume Five: Textual Evidence and Commentary, Such Consoles You Gave To Me & Other Poems, The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volume Two: 1928-1938. All poems are shown free of charge for educational purposes only in accordance with fair use guidelines. © Academy of American Poets, 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038. Tamar and Other Poems. Stones of the Sur: Poetry by Robinson Jeffers, Photographs by Morley Baer Robinson Jeffers. He wrote a poem entitled "Credo" which many feel refers to Krishnamurti. Outside of the United States he is most popular in Japan and the Czech Republic. All of Robinson Jeffers Poems. During this time, Jeffers published volumes of long narrative blank verse that shook up the national literary scene. Robinson Jeffers Poetry Collection from Famous Poets and Poems. In a rare recording, Jeffers can be heard reading his "The Day Is A Poem" (September 19, 1939) on Poetry Speaks – Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath, Narrated by Charles Osgood (Sourcebooks, Inc., c2001), Disc 1, #41; including text, with Robert Hass on Robinson Jeffers, pp. Register now and publish your best poems or read and bookmark your favorite popular famous poems. Two lines from Jeffers' poem "We Are Those People" are quoted toward the end of the 2008 film Visioneers. Roan Stallion, Tamar, and Other Poems. Jeffers wrote it in the very early 1960s, while the earth was in the middle of a 20-year cooling trend, and about 15 years before Wallace Broecker launched the term “global warming.” Jeffers was 73 when he wrote the poem. Read more → Browse all Famous poems > By Robinson Jeffers . In these works, Jeffers began to articulate themes that contributed to what he later identified as Inhumanism. To add more books, The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers, Not Man Apart: Photographs of the Big Sur Coast, The Double Axe, and Other Poems Including Eleven Suppressed Poems, Rock and Hawk: A Selection of Shorter Poems by Robinson Jeffers, The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volume Three: 1939-1962, The Beginning And The End, And Other Poems, The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Vols. The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. 1973); William Everson, Robinson Jeffers: Fragments of an Older Fury (1968); Arthur B. Coffin, Robinson Jeffers: Poet of Inhumanism (1971); Bill Hotchkiss, Jeffers: The Sivaistic Vision (1975); James Karman, ed., Critical Essays on Robinson Jeffers (1990); Alex Vardamis The Critical Reputation of Robinson Jeffers (1972); and Robert Zaller, ed., Centennial Essays for Robinson Jeffers (1991).
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