Robinson Jeffers - Wikipedia
John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887 – January 20, 1962) was an American poet known for his work about the central California coast. Much of Jeffers' poetry was written in narrative and epic form.
Robinson Jeffers | The Poetry Foundation
Over time, Robinson Jeffers regained his central place in the burgeoning field of eco-poetics. His uncompromising work celebrates the enduring beauty of sea, sky and stone and the freedom and ferocity of wild animals, and strives to create a vision of world in which human experience is productively questioned, qualified, and even decentered.
Robinson Jeffers - Poems by the Famous Poet - All Poetry
Robinson Jeffers was an American poet whose work often explored the beauty and brutality of the natural world. His writing style, rooted in Romanticism and influenced by the Modernist movement, is characterized by its directness, narrative focus, and use of formal structures like blank verse and rhyme. Jeffers' poetry often grapples with themes ...
About Robinson Jeffers - Academy of American Poets
Robinson Jeffers, who served on the original Board of Chancellors at the Academy of American Poets from 1946–56, died in 1962. Robinson Jeffers - Drawing on the "beauty of things" in nature, Robinson Jeffers wrote poetry that highlighted the difference between the natural world and the condition of the modern man.
Robinson Jeffers | Modernist Poet, Nature Lover, California ...
Robinson Jeffers was 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.
Biography – Robinson Jeffers Association
Robinson Jeffers was born in Pittsburgh on January 10, 1887 to Presbyterian minister and biblical scholar Dr. William Hamilton Jeffers and Annie Robinson Tuttle Jeffers. Dr. Jeffers took an active interest in his son’s education, tutoring him in the bible and classical languages and taking his family to Europe for extended stays.
Poetry – Robinson Jeffers Association
Poetry. Three of Robinson Jeffers’ major trade collections are now Public Domain. Downloadable PDFs of the complete texts of these three collections can be accessed by clicking these links: Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems. The Women at Point Sur. Cawdor and Other Poems. [Dear Judas and Other Poems will be added January 2025 when it ...
Robinson Jeffers, California Poets, American Poetry and ...
Nov 26, 2012 · Carmel by the Sea was a wild, sparsely populated place when the California poet Robinson Jeffers and his wife Una arrived in 1914. Drawn to the rugged coastline that reminded them of West Britain, the young couple bought five large, undeveloped lots on a rocky, wind-battered promontory just south of the village at Carmel Point, which they ...
Who Was Robinson Jeffers?
Robinson Jeffers led one of the most fascinating and controversial careers of any American poet. His dates, 1887 to 1962, are virtually identical with those of many of the greatest artists of international modernism, yet during a time when the post-symbolist lyric came to dominate poetry, he built much of his reputation on tragic verse dramas ...
Robinson Jeffers: Essential American Poets | The Poetry ...
Robinson Jeffers: Essential American Poets. Archival recordings of poet Robinson Jeffers, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1941 at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Listen to Donald Hall's selection of classic American poets reading from their work.