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Jeffers, Robinson, --- Jeffers, John Robinson, --- Poets, American.

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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. While a graduate student at the University of Southern California he met Una Call Kuster, a student who was the wife of a prominent Los Angeles attorney, and they began a scandalous affair that made the front page of the Los Angeles Times. They eventually married and escaped to Carmel, California to write poetry; there they would spend the rest of their lives. At the height of his popularity in the 1920's and 1930's, 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 1940's 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 Czesław Miłosz 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.

Poets, American --- Jeffers, Robinson, --- Jeffers, John Robinson, --- Poets [American ] --- 20th century --- Biography

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Robinson Jeffers was considered one of the most important American poets of the early 20th century, yet the story behind his family life has not been told from his son's perspective. How he managed to remain a prolific poet while raising a family is the topic of this book, along with anecdotes about the famous and influential literary, artistic, and creative figures who frequently visited the Jeffers household near Big Sur, California.

Jeffers, Garth Sherwood -- Interviews. --- Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962 -- Family. --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Jeffers, Robinson, --- Jeffers, Garth Sherwood --- Family. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Jeffers, John Robinson,

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"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"--

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Yeats, W. B. --- Jeffers, Robinson, --- Influence. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Jeffers, John Robinson, --- Yeats, William Butler --- D. E. D. I., --- Daemon Est Deus Inversus, --- Ganconagh, --- I., D. E. D., --- Йейтс, У. Б. --- Ĭeĭts, U. B. --- Йейтс, Уильям Батлер, --- Ĭeĭts, Uilʹi︠a︡m Batler, --- Weilian Batele Yezhi, --- Yeṭs, Ṿilyam Baṭler, --- יטס, יטלאם בטלר --- ייטס, ויליאם בטלר, --- 威廉,巴特勒,叶芝,