Robinson Jeffers

Jeffers, Robinson - 1887–1962, American poet and dramatist, b. Pittsburgh, grad. Occidental College, 1905. From 1914 until his death Jeffers lived on the Big Sur section of the rocky California coast, finding his inspiration in its stern beauty. For Jeffers the world, viewed pantheistically, was marred only by humanity, a doomed and inverted species, and its tainted civilization. He Read More...

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Shine, Perishing Republic: Robinson Jeffers and the Tragic Sense in Modern Poetry
by Rudolph Gilbert. 197 pgs.

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I. the Poet of Our Time

Ii. His Philosophy

Iii. Mysticism and Symbolism

Part IV: Tragedy: an Approach to the Not-Self

Part V: Attitude Toward Poetry, Civilization and Nature

Part VI: Bibliography

Bibliography
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Medea
by Robinson Jeffers. 114 pgs.

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Books by Robinson Jeffers

Persons in the Play

First Act

Second Act
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The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
by Robinson Jeffers. 622 pgs.

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Foreword

Tamar

The Tower Beyond Tragedy

The Old Man's Dream After He Died: From Cawdor

The Loving Shepherdess

Thurso's Landing

Give Your Heart to the Hawks

At the Birth of an Age

Steelhead

Decaying Lambskins

Index of Poems

Index of First Lines
4.

The Heel of Elohim: Science and Values in Modern American Poetry (Chap. V "Robinson Jeffers: Here Is Reality")
by Hyatt Howe Waggoner. 238 pgs.

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Prefatory Note:: Origins, Assumptions, Intentions

Acknowledgments

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I. Poets, Test Tubes, and the Heel of Elohim

Ii. E. A. Robinson: the Cosmic Chill

Iv. T. S. Eliot: at the Still Point

V. Robinson Jeffers: Here is Reality

Vi. Archibald Macleish: the Undigested Mystery

Vii. Hart Crane: Beyond All Sesames of Science

Iii. Science and Poetry: Conclusions

Index
5.

The Spiritual Aspects of the New Poetry (Chap. XII "The Nihilism of Robinson Jeffers")
by Amos N. Wilder. 266 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Part One. Modernist and Traditionalist

Chapter I: The Significance of the New Poetry

Chapter II: The Marks of the New Poetry

Chapter III: The Traditionalist Poet Today

Chapter IV: The Problem of Religious Poetry In America

Part Two. Factors Making for Negation

Chapter V: New Views of the Self

Chapter VI: Mr. Conrad Aiken and the Self

Chapter VII: Social Realism

Chapter IX: Contemporary Perdition

Part Three. Alternative Faiths

Chapter X: The Cult of the Irrational

Chapter XI: The New Pantheism

Chapter XII: The Nihilism of Mr. Robinson Jeffers

Chapter XIII: The Primitivism of D. H. Lawrence

Chapter XIV: Ethical Motives

Chapter XV: Revolutionary and Proletarian Poetry: Kenneth Patchen

Chapter XVI: W. B. Yeats and the Christian Option

Chapter XVII: Mr. T. S. Eliot and the Anglo-Catholic Option

Chapter XVIII: The Pit from Which We Were Digged

Appendix: Orientation and Reading Guide

Bibliography

Index
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American Literature and the Dream (Chap. 16 "Death Comes for Robinson Jeffers")
by Frederic I. Carpenter. 222 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

1: Introduction

Part I

2: The American Dream

Part II

3: The Transcendental Dream

4: Emerson

5: Bronson Alcott:Genteel Transcendentalist

6: Walt Whitman's Eidolon

Part III

7: The Genteel Tradition:A Re-Interpretation

8: Scarlet a Minus

9: Melville and the Men-Of-War

Part IV

10: The Pragmatic Realization

11: Charles Sanders Peirce:Pragmatic Transcendentalist

12: William James and Emerson

13: Sinclair Lewis and the Fortress of Reality

Part V

14: The Romantic Confusion: the Devil in America

15: The Romantic Tragedy of Eugene O'Neill

16: Death Comes for Robinson Jeffers

Part VI

17: Thomas Wolfe: the Autobiography of an Idea

18: John Steinbeck: the Philosophical Joads

19: The Time of William Saroyan's Life

20: Hemingway Achieves the Fifth Dimension

Part VII

21: The Good and the Bad

22: The Logic of American Literature

Notes

Index
7.

I Hear America ...: Literature in the United States since 1900 ("Robinson Jeffers" begins on p. 60)
by Vernon Loggins. 382 pgs.

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I: Introductory

II: Unpremeditated Art

III: Questioning Despair

IV: Cleaving to the Dream

V: Dominant Primordial

VI: Back of the Mask

VII: Manners

VIII: Regional Variations

IX: Iconoclasm

X: Revolution

XI: Cap and Bells

XII: Intellectualism and Experiment

XIII: Mindful of the Millions

Recommended for Reading

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Index

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Jeffers's Science, in Explicator
by Erland Anderson. 3 pgs.

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Symbolism in Religion and Literature (Discussion of Robinson Jeffers begins on p. 102)
by Rollo May. 258 pgs.

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Introduction

1: The Nature of the Symbol

2: The Religious Symbol

3: The Cross: Social Trauma or Redemption

4: On the First Three Chapters of Genesis

5: The Pattern of Religious Organization in the United States

6: The Broken Center: a Definition of the Crisis of Values in Modern Literature

7: The Sense of Poetry: Shakespeare's "The Phoenix and the Turtle"

8: The Representation of Nature in Contemporary Physics

9: Uses of Symbolism

Notes on Contributors
10.

The Myth of Medea and the Murder of Children (Discussion of Robinson Jeffers begins on p. 201)
by Lillian Corti. 242 pgs.

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Corti focuses on the meaning and importance of the act of child murder in literary treatments of the ancient myth. She insists on the connection between the structure of tragedy and the psychology of abuse, arguing that the tragedy of Medea dramatizes the violent hostility toward children, which is always potentially present in patriarchal culture despite the conspicuous emphasis on positive descriptions of parental love in officially sanctioned discourse.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Performances and Productions

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2: Euripides and the Tyranny of Honor

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5

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Works Cited

Index

About the Author
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New Poets from Old: A Study in Literary Genetics (Discussion of Robinson Jeffers begins on p. 214)
by Henry W. Wells. 360 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

I: Our Poetic Tradition

Ii: the Heritage of Technique

Iii: the Heritage of Form

Iv: the Heritage of Spirit

V: the Right Use of the Past

A Selected Book List

Index
12.

A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature ("Jeffers, Robinson (1887- )" begins on p. 257)
by Dorothy Nyren. 554 pgs.

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Foreword

Periodicals Represented

Adams, Henry (1838-1918)

Agee, James (1909-1955)

Aiken, Conrad (1889- )

Algren, Nelson (1909- )

Anderson, Maxwell (1888-1959)

Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941)

Auchincloss, Louis (1917- )

Auden, W. H. (1907-)

Babbitt, Irving (1865-1933)

Baldwin, James (1924- )

Barnes, Djuna (1900- )

Barry, Philip (1896-1949)

Behrman, S. N. (1893- )

Bellow, Saul (1915- )

BenÉT, Stephen Vincent (1898-1943)

Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?)

Bishop, Elizabeth (1911- )

Bishop, John Peale (1892-1944)

Blackmur, Richard (1904- )

Bodenheim, Maxwell (1893-1954)

Bogan, Louise (1897- )

Bowles, Paul (1910- )

Brooks, Cleanth (1906- )

Brooks, Van Wyck (1886- )

Buck, Pearl (1892- )

Burke, Kenneth (1897-)

Burns, John Horne (1916-1953)

Cabell, James Branch (1879-)

Caldwell, Erskine (1903- )

Capote, Truman (1924- )

Cather, Willa (1873-1947)

Ciardi, John (1916-)

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg (1908- )

Cowley, Nalcolm (1898- )

Cozzens, James Gould (1903- )

Crane, Hart (1899-1932)

Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)

Cullen, Countee (1903-1946)

Cummings, Edward Estlin (1894- )

Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.) (1886- )

Dos Passos, John (1896- )

Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945)

Eberhart, Richard (1904-)

Edmonds, Walter

Eliot, T. S. (1888- )

Ellison, Ralph (1914- )

Farrell, James Thomas (1904- )

Fast, Howard (1904- )

Faulkner, William (1897- )

Fearing, Kenneth (1902- )

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958)

Fisher, Vardis (1895- )

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)

Fitzgerald, Robert (1910- )

Fletcher, John Gould (1886-1950)

Fowlie, Wallace (1908- )

Frost, Robert (1875- )

Garrigue, Jean (1914- )

Ginsberg, Allen (1926- )

Glasgow, Ellen (1874-1945)

Gold, Herbert (1924- )

Goyen, William (1918- )

Gregory, Horace (1898- )

Guthrie A. B., Jr. (1901- )

Hayes, Alfred (1911- )

Hearn, Lafcadio (1850-1904)

Hellman, Lillian (1905- )

Hemingway, Ernest (1898- )

Hersey, John (1914- )

Howard, Sidney (1891-1939)

Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)

Hughes, Langston (1902- )

Inge, William (1913- )

Jackson, Shirley (1919- )

James, Henry (1843-1916)

Jarell, Randall (1914- )

Jeffers, Robinson (1887- )

Kantor, Mackinlay (1904- )

Kerouac, Jack (1922- )

Kingsley, Sidney (1906- )

Kreymborg, Alfred (1883- )

Kunitz, Stanley (1905- )

Lardner, Ring (1885-1933)

Levin, Meyer (1905- )

Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951)

Lewisohn, Ludwig (1882-1956)

Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931)

London, Jack (1876-1916)

Lowell, Amy (1874-1925)

Lowell, Robert (1917- )

Mccarthy, Mary (1912- )

Mccullers, Carson (1917- )

Macleish, Archibald (1892- )

Mailer, Norman (1923- )

Malamud, Bernard (1914- )

Marquand, John P. (1893- )

Masters, Edgar Lee (1868-1950)

Mencken, H. L. (1880-1950)

Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)

Miller, Arthur (1915- )

Miller, Henry (1891- )

Moody, William Vaughan (1869-1910)

Moore, Marianne (1887- )

Moore, Merrill (1903-1957)

Morris, Wright (1910- )

Nln, Anais (1903- )

Norris, Frank (1870-1902)

O'Connor, Flannery (1926- )

Odets, Clifford (1906- )

O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953)

Parker, Dorothy (1893- )

Patchen, Kenneth (1911- )

Porter Katherine Anne (1894- )

Pound, Ezra (1885- )

Ransom, John Crowe (1888- )

Rexroth, Kenneth (1905- )

Rice, Elmer (1892- )

Richter, Conrad (1890- )

Roberts, Elizabeth Madox (1886-1941)

Roberts, Kenneth (1885-1957)

Roethke, Theodore (1908- )

Rukeyser, Muriel (1913- )

Salinger, J. D. (1919- )

Sandburg, Carl (1878- )

Santayana, George (1863-1952)

Saroyan, William (1908- )

Sarton, May (1912- )

Schulberg, Budd (1914- )

Schwartz, Delmore (1913- )

Scott, Winfield Townley (1910- )

Shapiro, Karl (1913- )

Shaw, Irwin (1913- )

Sherwood, Robert (1896-1855)

Sinclair, Upton (1878- )

Stafford, Jean (1915- )

Stegner, Wallace (1909- )

Steinbeck, John (1902- )

Styron, William (1925- )

Tate, Allen (1899- )

Taylor, Peter (1917- )

Thurber, James (1894- )

Trilling, Lionel (1905- )

Twain, Mark (1835-1910)

Van Doren, Mark (1894- )

Van Druten, John (1901-1957)

Viereck, Peter (1919- )

Warren, Robert Penn (1905- )

Welty, Eudora (1909- )

Wescott, Glenway (1901- )

West, Nathanael (1906-1940)

Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)

Wheelock, John (1886- )

Wheelwright, John Brooks (1897-1940)

Wilbur, Richard (1921- )

Wilder, Thornton (1897- )

Williams, Tennessee (1914- )

Wilson, Edmund (1895- )

Winters, Yvor (1900)

Wolfe, Thomas (1900-1938)

Wright, Richard (1908- )
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Writers and Philosophers: A Sourcebook of Philosophical Influences on Literature ("Jeffers, Robinson" begins on p. 102)
by Edmund J. Thomas, Eugene G. Miller. 276 pgs.

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This book provides strong guidance to teachers and students of literature that gives them a greater understanding of the philosophical influences on more than 100 major literary figures. The text describes philosophical influences reflected in their writings as well as references to philosophical works that are known to have played a part in their intellectual and aesthetic development.

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Preface

Key to Journal Titles and Abbreviations

Literary Figures and Philosophical Influences

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

O

P

R

S

T

U

W

Y

Profiles of Philosophers

Glossary of Philosophical Terms, Concepts, and Movements

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Authors
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The Literary West: An Anthology of Western American Literature (Includes "Granite and Cypress," "Tor House," "November Surf," "Gray Weather,""Signpost," and "The Answer" by Robinson Jeffers)
by Thomas J. Lyon. 450 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction the Conquistador, the Lone Ranger, and Beyond

A Western Chronology, with 200 Significant Titles

Kathlamet Chinook (oral Tradition)

Pedro Font

Lewis and Clark

John Muir

Clarence Dutton

Sarah Winnemucca

Hamlin Garland

Owen Wister

Mary Austin

Jack London

Zane Grey

Willa Cather

Dorothy Scarborough

Robinson Jeffers

Luther Standing Bear

John Steinbeck

A. B. Guthrie Jr.

Jack Schaefer

Frank Waters

Jose Antonio Villarrea

William Stafford

N. Scott Momaday

Al Young

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston

Edward Abbey

Wallace Stegner

Sam Shepard

Act 1: Scene 1

Act 2: Scene 5

Rudolfo Anaya

Gary Snyder

Gretel Ehrlich

Louis L'Amour

Denise Chavez

May Swenson

Charles Bowden

Amy Tan

Terry Tempest Williams

"Reimagining Warner," from Heart of the Land (1994)

Rick Bass

Barbara Kingsolver

Linda Hogan

Guide to Further Reading

Credits

Index
15.

Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment ("Robinson, Jeffers, 1887-1962" begins on p. 181)
by David E. Cooper, Peter Blaze Corcoran, Joy A. Palmer. 322 pgs.

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Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy Palmer has assembled a team of over twenty expert contributors to summarize and analyze the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures from all over the world and from ancient times to the present Among those included are philosophers such as Jean Jacques Rousseau, activists such as Chico Mendes, literary giants such as Virgil, and major religious figures such as Gotama (The Buddha). Lucid, scholarly and informative, these fifty essays offer a fascinating overview of mankind's view and understanding of the physical world.

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Preface

Virgil’s Major Writings

Note

Bacon’s Major Writings

Wordsworth’s Major Writings

Further Reading

Naess’s Major Writings

Notes

Notes
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An Introduction to Philosophy through Literature (Includes "The Inhumanist" (selection) and "The King of Beasts" by Robinson Jeffers)
by Robert C. Baldwin, James A. S. McPeek. 602 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

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A Letter to the Reader

Chapter 1: The Great Questions

Chapter 2: The Meaning of Beauty

Chapter 3: Of Human Conduct

Chapter 4: In Search of God

Chapter 5 If a Man Die

Apology (conclusion)

Chapter 6: The Problem of Evil

Act I

Chapter 7: The Value of Life: as the Pessimist Sees It

Chapter 8: The Value of Life: as the Optimist Sees It

Chapter 9: Of Human Freedom

Chapter 10: The Problem of Knowledge

Chapter 11: The One and the Many

Chapter 12: Of Time and Change

Chapter 13: Naturalism: "The Dark Divinity of Earth"

Chapter 14: The Humanist Way of Life

Chapter 15: Some Aspects of Pragmatism

Postscript

Index of Titles

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

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