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The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volume Four: Poetry 1903-1920, Prose, and Unpublished Writings
Contributor(s): Jeffers, Robinson (Author), Hunt, Tim (Editor)

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ISBN: 0804738165     ISBN-13: 9780804738163
Publisher: Stanford University Press
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Published: August 2000
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Annotation: "A masterful job of contemporary scholarly editing, this book begins an edition intended to clarify a 'Jeffers canon, ' establishing for times to come the verse legacy of a poet who looked on all things with the eyes of eternity."--San Francisco Chronicle
"This edition will be standard . . . a tribute and justice to a poet whose independent strength has survived to challenge personal and public canons."--Virginia Quarterly Review

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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Dewey: 811.52
LCCN: 87-18083
Series: Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
Physical Information: 1.8" H x 7.83" W x 10.31" L (3.34 lbs) 592 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1900-1949
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2001 pg. 198
 
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Publisher Description:

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.

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 poems from the last three volumes published during Jeffers's lifetime or from his posthumous volume. Now, for the first time, all of Jeffers's completed poems, both published and unpublished, are presented in a single, comprehensive, and textually authoritative edition of five volumes.

The present volume is in three parts. Poetry 1903-1920 consists of some of the poems published while Jeffers was a college student, two early collections (Flagons and Apples and Californians), and a number of poems that were never published or were recently rediscovered. Introductions, Forewords, and Miscellaneous Prose, 1920-1948 gathers all the major prose works. Unpublished Poems and Fragments, 1910-1962 is mostly material that Jeffers never published, and apparently never tried to publish. The fifth volume of commentary will contain various procedural explanations and textual evidence for the texts presented in the edition, as well as transcriptions of working notes for the poems and of alternate and discarded passages. The Collected Poetry is designed by Adrian Wilson.

 
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