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The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volume Two: 1928-1938
Contributor(s): Jeffers, Robinson (Editor), Hunt, Tim (Author)

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ISBN: 0804717230     ISBN-13: 9780804717236
Publisher: Stanford University Press
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Published: August 1989
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Annotation: The present volumes consists of poems published between 1920-1938, and includes some of his greatest and best known poems.

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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Dewey: 811.52
LCCN: 87018083
Series: Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
Physical Information: 1.9" H x 7.94" W x 10.33" L (3.62 lbs) 648 pages
Review Citations: Library Journal 08/01/1989
 
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Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that California (and indeed the American West) has produced but a major poet of the twentieth century who occupies a prominent place in the tradition of American prophetic poetry.

Jeffers consciously set himself apart from the poetry of his generation--by physical isolation at his home in Carmel, by his unusual poetic form, and by his stance as an anti-modernist. Yet his work represents a profound, and profoundly original, artistic response to problems that shaped modernist poetry and that still perplex poets today; how to reconcile scientific and artistic discourses and modes of vision; how to connect present-day experience to myths perceived as lying at the origins of human culture; how to renew the poetic language and how (or whether) to present art's claim to moral, spiritual, or epistemological seriousness within representations of modern phenomena.

For Jeffers, as for no other important modern American poet, there has never been a collected poems, not even a truly representative selected poems--the current Selected Poetry, first published in 1938, contains no work from the last three volumes published during Jeffers' lifetime or from his posthumous volume. Now, for the first time, all of Jeffers' completed poems, both published and unpublished, are presented in a single, comprehensive, and textually authoritative edition.

The first three volumes of this four-volume work, will present chronologically all of Jeffers' published work from 1920 to 1963. The present volume consists of poems written between 1928 and 1938--the narratives Dear Judes, Thurso's Landing, Give Your Heart to the Hawks, Solstice, and Such Counsels You Gave to Me, as well as shorter verse dramas and lyric poems.

 
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