The Collected Letters Of Robinson Jeffers With Selected Letters Of Una Jeffers

Author : James Karman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804781725

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The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers by James Karman Pdf

The 1930s marked a turning point for the world. Scientific and technological revolutions, economic and social upheavals, and the outbreak of war changed the course of history. The 1930s also marked a turning point for Robinson Jeffers, both in his career as a poet and in his private life. The letters collected in this second volume of annotated correspondence document Jeffers' rising fame as a poet, his controversial response to the turmoil of his time, his struggles as a writer, the growth and maturation of his twin sons, and the network of friends and acquaintances that surrounded him. The letters also provide an intimate portrait of Jeffers' relationship to his wife Una—including a full account of the 1938 crisis at Mabel Dodge Luhan's home in Taos, New Mexico that nearly destroyed their marriage.

Author : Robinson Jeffers,Una Jeffers
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 1017 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780804762519

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The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers by Robinson Jeffers,Una Jeffers Pdf

v. 1. 1890-1930. 2009.

Author : James Karman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804794770

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The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers by James Karman Pdf

This volume of correspondence, the last in a three-volume edition, spans a pivotal moment in American history: the mid-twentieth century, from the beginning of World War II, through the years of rebuilding and uneasy peace that followed, to the election of President John F. Kennedy. Robinson Jeffers published four important books during this period—Be Angry at the Sun (1941), Medea (1946), The Double Axe (1948), and Hungerfield (1954). He also faced changes to his hometown village of Carmel, experienced the rewards of being a successful dramatist in the United States and abroad, and endured the loss of his wife Una. Jeffers' letters, and those of Una written in the decade prior to her death, offer a vivid chronicle of the life and times of a singular and visionary poet.

Author : Robinson Jeffers
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0804738904

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The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers by Robinson Jeffers Pdf

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Author : James Karman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780804795500

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Robinson Jeffers by James Karman Pdf

“[A] deeply informative biography . . . situates the poet in his time and place, tracing the effect of both contemporary history and wild nature on his work.” —Edwin Cranston, Harvard University The precipitous cliffs, rolling headlands, and rocky inlets of the California coast come alive in the poetry of John Robinson Jeffers, an icon of the environmental movement. In this concise and accessible biography, Jeffers scholar James Karman reveals deep insights into this passionate and complex figure and establishes Jeffers as a leading American poet of prophetic vision. In a move that would define his life’s work, Jeffers’ family relocated to California from Pennsylvania in 1903 when he was sixteen. At the height of his popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, Jeffers became one of the few poets ever featured on the cover of Time magazine, and posthumously put on a U.S. postage stamp. Writing by kerosene lamp in a granite tower that he had built himself, his vivid and descriptive poetry of the coast evoked the difficulty and beauty of the wild and inspired photographers such as Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. He was known for long narrative blank verse that shook up the national literary scene, but in the 1940s his interest in the Greek classics led to several adaptations which were staged on Broadway to great success. Inspiring later artists from Charles Bukowski to Czeslaw Milosz and even the Beach Boys, Robinson Jeffers’ contribution to American letters is skillfully brought back out of the shadows of history in this compelling biography of a complex man of poetic genius who wrote so powerfully of the astonishing beauty of nature.

Author : Robinson Jeffers,Tim Hunt
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0804738165

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The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers by Robinson Jeffers,Tim Hunt Pdf

This volume is in three parts. Part I (1903-1920) includes Jeffers’s earliest poetry and poems that were never published or were recently rediscovered. Part II (1920-1948) gathers all Jeffers’s major prose works. Part III (1910-1962) is mostly material that Jeffers never published, and apparently never tried to publish. The book design is by Adrian Wilson in a 7 1/2 by 10 inch format.

Author : Robinson Jeffers
Publisher : Stanford Univ Press + ORM
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780804780216

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The Wild God of the World by Robinson Jeffers Pdf

“The forgotten giant of American poetry . . . For those who would discover Jeffers . . . this is the place to start—and a place to return again and again.” —Tim Hunt, Washington State University Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that the American West has produced but also a major poet of the twentieth century in the tradition of American prophetic poetry. This anthology serves as an introduction to Jeffers’s work for the general reader and for students in courses on American poetry. Jeffers composed each volume of his verse around one or two long narrative or dramatic poems. The Wild God of the World follows this practice: in it, Cawdor, one of Jeffers’s most powerful narratives, is surrounded by a representative selection of shorter poems. At the end of the book, the editor has provided revealing statements about Jeffers’s poetry and poetics, and about his philosophy of nature and human nature. “Of all the poets of his generation, [Robinson Jeffers] made our relation to this earth and sea and sky and wheeling seasons and the evolutionary processes that made trees and salmon runs and hunting hawks, his subject. As that relation grows more troubled, his words become more necessary. To have this beautifully edited and freshly seen anthology is a gift.” —Robert Hass, University of California, Berkeley

Author : Robinson Jeffers,Morley Baer,James Karman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780804739429

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Stones of the Sur by Robinson Jeffers,Morley Baer,James Karman Pdf

The precipitous cliffs, rolling headlands, and rocky inlets of the Big Sur coast of California prompted Robinson Jeffers to extol their wild beauty throughout his long career as a poet. This extraordinary volume brings together Jeffers’s haunting poetry with magnificent photographs of Big Sur by his friend and neighbor, famed photographer Morley Baer.

Author : Matthew Calarco
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781839990403

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How Not to Be Human by Matthew Calarco Pdf

Current debates in the environmental humanities, animal studies, and related fields increasingly revolve around this question: What to do with “the human”? Is the human a category worth preserving? Should it be replaced with the post-human? Should marginalized and minoritarian groups advocate for a universal humanism? What is the relationship between humanism and anthropocentrism? Is a genuinely non-anthropocentric mode of thinking and living possible for human beings? This book argues that the writings of twentieth-century poet Robinson Jeffers offer twenty-first-century readers a number of crucial insights concerning such questions and timely advice about how not to be human. For Jeffers, our tendency to turn inward on ourselves and to indulge in human narcissism is at the heart of the social, economic, and existential ills that plague modern societies. As a remedy, Jeffers recommends turning ourselves outward—beyond the self and beyond the human—and learning to affirm and even love the inhuman cosmos in all of its terrible beauty. In the process, Jeffers helps us find our way back to ourselves, but this time no longer as “human” in the traditional sense but as plain members of the inhuman world.

Author : Robinson Jeffers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Authors
ISBN : UOM:39015002303710

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The Selected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, 1897-1962 by Robinson Jeffers Pdf

Author : Robinson Jeffers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1954357095

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Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems by Robinson Jeffers Pdf

The book that first announced Robinson Jeffers to the world in 1925, taking American poetry by storm with what biographer Melba Bennett called "this strange and violent voice." Featuring the classic poems Roan Stallion, Tamar, The Tower Beyond Tragedy, Shine Perishing Republic, Divinely Superfluous Beauty, and many more. "The greatest poetic consciousness of our day ... [The Tower Beyond Tragedy] should be accepted as the first, direct, harmonious modern work of poetic art equal to the Greeks." - Stuart Gilbert, Shine, Perishing Republic: A Study of Robinson Jeffers

Author : ShaunAnne Tangney
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826355782

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The Wild That Attracts Us by ShaunAnne Tangney Pdf

The first collection in twenty years of essays on Robinson Jeffers, one of the great American poets of the twentieth century, this work signals the sea change in Jeffers scholarship, as well as the increasing breadth and depth of criticism of the literature of the American West. The essays assembled here highlight issues and theories critical to Jeffers studies, among them the advance of ecocriticism, the reimagining of regionalism as place studies, the continuing development of cultural studies and the new historicism, the increasingly poignant vector of science and literature, the new formalism, particularly as it pertains to narrative verse, and the glaring omission of feminist analysis in Jeffers scholarship. Jeffers has always appealed to a wider audience than many twentieth-century poets, and this book will speak to that general readership as well as to scholars and students.

Author : Desley Deacon
Publisher : Kerr Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781875703180

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Judith Anderson by Desley Deacon Pdf

Everyone knows Mrs Danvers as a byword for menace in Hitchcock's Rebecca and as a poster girl for lesbians in the movies. But only dedicated fans know her brilliant creator. This book tells Judith Anderson's life story for the first time. It recovers her career as one of the great stars of stage and television and an important character actress in film. Born in Adelaide, Australia, in 1897, brought up by a determined single mother, she parlayed her rich, velvety voice and ability to give reality to strong emotional roles into stardom on Broadway in the 1920s. Not a conventional beauty, she was alluring, with her beautiful body, perfect dress sense, and striking, volatile personality. After playing glamorous roles, she was recognised as a Leading Lady of the American Stage under the direction of Guthrie McClintic in Hamlet and co-starring with Laurence Olivier and Maurice Evans in Macbeth. Her reputation as a great actress was confirmed by her landmark performance in 1947 in the ancient Greek Medea, adapted for her by her friend, poet Robinson Jeffers. In a long career, she appeared in Medea again in 1982 at the age of 85, playing the Nurse to fellow-Australian Zoe Caldwell's Medea. Ambitious and driven, Anderson toured extensively, made numerous highly praised appearances on television, and, after her unforgettable role as Mrs Danvers, was a sought-after character actress in film, playing her last role as Vulcan High Priestess in Star Trek III at the age of 87. She won many awards and was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1960 and Companion of the Order of Australia just before her death in 1992. She had a stormy private life and two short marriages, which, she remarked, were 'much too long.'

Author : Robert Zaller
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804781022

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Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime by Robert Zaller Pdf

Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime is the most comprehensive and most substantial critical work ever devoted to the major American poet Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962). Jeffers, the best known poet of California and the American West, particularly valorized the Big Sur region, making it his own as Frost did New England and Faulkner, Mississippi, and connecting it to the wider tradition of the American sublime in Emerson, Thoreau, and John Muir. The book also links Jeffers to a Puritan sublime in early American verse and explores his response to the Darwinian and Freudian revolutions and his engagement with modern astronomy. This discussion leads to a broad consideration of Jeffers' focus on the figure of Christ as emblematic of the human aspiration toward God—a God whom Jeffers defines not in Christian terms but in those of an older materialist pantheism and of modern science. The later sections of the book develop a conspectus of the democratic sublime that addresses American exceptionalism through the prism of Jeffers' Jeffersonian ethos. A final chapter places Jeffers' poetic thought in the larger cosmological perspective he sought in his late works.

Author : Deborah Fleming
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611175486

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Towers of Myth & Stone by Deborah Fleming Pdf

In this critical study of the influence of W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) on the poetry and drama of Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962), Deborah Fleming examines similarities in imagery, landscape, belief in eternal recurrence, use of myth, distrust of rationalism, and dedication to tradition. Although Yeats’s and Jeffers’s styles differed widely, Towers of Myth and Stone examines how the two men shared a vision of modernity, rejected contemporary values in favor of traditions (some of their own making), and created poetry that sought to change those values. Jeffers’s well-known opposition to modernist poetry forced him for decades to the margins of critical appraisal, where he was seen as an eccentric without aesthetic content. Yet both Yeats and Jeffers formulated social and poetic philosophies that continue to find relevance in critical and cultural theory. Engaging Yeats’s work enabled Jeffers to develop a related, though distinct, sense of what themes and subject matter were best suited for poetic endeavor. His connection to Yeats helps to explain the nature of Jeffers’s poetry even as it helps to clarify Yeats’s influence on those who followed him. Moreover, Fleming argues, Jeffers’s interest in Yeats suggests that critics misunderstand Jeffers if they take his rejection of modernism (as exemplified by Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Ezra Pound) as a rejection of contemporary poetry or the process by which modern poetry came into being.