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Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

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ISBN-10: 0804741085

ISBN-13: 9780804741088

Edition: 2001

Authors: Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 4/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 776
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.61" long x 1.61" tall
Weight: 2.750
Language: English

Born in Pennsylvania, the son of a Presbyterian minister and Old Testament scholar, Jefferson attended school in Germany and Switzerland. After moving with his family to California in 1903, he graduated from Occidental College and also studied at the University of Southern California, the University of Zurich, and the University of Washington. Finally, after years of traveling, Jeffers settled with his wife on a wild, sea-beaten cliff at Carmel, California, in what was virtually a literary hermitage. There he set down the tragic folktales of northern California in ironic epic. Jeffers was a poet concerned with cruelty and horror, whose dramatic narratives are filled with scenes of blood and…    

Introduction
Tamar 1917-23
To His Father
Suicide's Stone
Divinely Superfluous Beauty
The Excesses of God
To the Stone-Cutters
To the House
Salmon Fishing
Natural Music
Wise Men in Their Bad Hours
To the Rock That Will Be a Cornerstone of the House
The Cycle
Shine, Perishing Republic
Continent's End
Tamar
Point Joe
Gale in April
The Treasure
Roan Stallion 1924-25
Birds
Fog
Boats in a Fog
People and a Heron
Night
Autumn Evening
Joy
Phenomena
from The Tower Beyond Tragedy (final scene)
Roan Stallion
The Women at Point Sur 1925-26
Post Mortem
Clouds at Evening
Pelicans
Apology for Bad Dreams
Love-Children
Credo
Prelude
Cawdor 1926-28
Birth-Dues
The Broken Balance
Hurt Hawks
Bixby's Landing
An Artist
The Machine
Meditation on Saviors
A Redeemer
Tor House
Cawdor
Dear Judas 1928-29
Hooded Night
Evening Ebb
Hands
The Loving Shepherdess
from Descent to the Dead
Shane O'Neill's Cairn
Ossian's Grave
The Broadstone
In the Hill at Newgrange
Ghosts in England
Inscription for a Gravestone
Subjected Earth
Notes to "Descent to the Dead"
The Bed by the Window
Winged Rock
Thurso's Landing 1930-31
The Place for No Story
New Mexican Mountain
November Surf
Margrave
Fire on the Hills
Give Your Heart to the Hawks 1931-33
A Little Scraping
Triad
Still the Mind Smiles
Give Your Heart to the Hawks
Solstice 1933-35
Return
Love the Wild Swan
The Cruel Falcon
Distant Rainfall
Rock and Hawk
Shine, Republic
Sign-Post
Flight of Swans
from At the Birth of an Age (vision of the self-hanged God)
Gray Weather
Red Mountain
Such Counsels You Gave to me 1935-38
Rearmament
The Purse-Seine
The Wind-Struck Music
Memoir
Nova
The Answer
The Beaks of Eagles
All the Little Hoof-Prints
Contemplation of the Sword
Oh Lovely Rock
October Week-End
Steelhead, Wild Pig, The Fungus
Night without Sleep
Self-Criticism in February
Shiva
Now Returned Home
Theory of Truth
Be Angry at the Sun 1938-41
Faith
Come Little Birds
The House-Dog's Grave
Prescription of Painful Ends
The Day Is a Poem
The Bloody Sire
The Stars Go over the Lonely Ocean
For Una
Drunken Charlie
The Double Axe 1942-47
Pearl Harbor
Advice to Pilgrims
Cassandra
Historical Choice
Calm and Full the Ocean
The Blood-Guilt
Invasion
Original Sin
Orca
The Inquisitors
Quia Absurdum
The Inhumanist (Part II of The Double Axe)
Hungerfield 1948-53
Animals
The Beauty of Things
Hungerfield
Carmel Point
De Rerum Virtute
The Deer Lay Down Their Bones
Last Poems 1953-62
The Shears
Patronymic
Birds and Fishes
Let Them Alone
"The unformed volcanic earth"
The Ocean's Tribute
On an Anthology of Chinese Poems
"The mathematicians and physics men"
Vulture
Granddaughter
The Epic Stars
"Goethe, they say, was a great poet"
Hand
Oysters
"It nearly cancels my fear of death"
Prose
Preface, Tamar (1923)
Introduction, Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems (1935)
Foreword, The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (1938)
Preface, The Double Axe and Other Poems (original version, 1947)
Poetry, Gongorism, and a Thousand Years (1948)
Unpublished Poems
Aesthetics (1910)
The Palace (1914)
May 5, 1915 (1915)
Oblation/Testament (1918)
The Shore of Dreams (1919?)
The Hills Beyond the River (1919)
Doors to Peace (mid-1920s)
Forecast (1925)
Not a Laurel on the Place (1926)
Ninth Anniversary (1928)
Oct. 27 Lunar Eclipse--98% (On the Calendar) (1939)
Tragedy Has Obligations (1943)
Rhythm and Rhyme (1949)
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines