Robinson Jeffers : poet and prophet

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Robinson Jeffers : poet and prophet

James Karman

Stanford University Press, c2015

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-230) and index

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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 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.

目次

  • Contents and AbstractsSection 1: 1887-1905 chapter abstractParents William Hamilton Jeffers and Annie Tuttle Jeffers
  • birth
  • education in Europe
  • college graduation Section 2: 1905-1910 chapter abstractGraduate literary studies
  • medical school
  • affair with Una Kuster
  • forestry Section 3: 1910-1915 chapter abstractMarriage to Una
  • birth and death of daughter
  • move to Carmel, California
  • death of father
  • book: Flagons and Apples (1912) Section 4: 1915-1920 chapter abstractWorld War I
  • birth of twin sons
  • finding a poetic voice
  • The Alpine Christ
  • construction of Tor House
  • book: Californians (1916) Section 5: 1920-1925 chapter abstractResponse to Modernism
  • building of Hawk Tower
  • The Tower Beyond Tragedy
  • Section 6: 1925-1930 chapter abstractFast pace of American life
  • Carmel as tourist attraction
  • growing circle of visitors and friends
  • travel to British Isles
  • Great Depression
  • books: The Women at Point Sur (1927)
  • Cawdor and Other Poems (1928)
  • Dear Judas and Other Poems (1929) Section 7: 1930-1935 chapter abstractFriendship with Mabel Dodge Luhan
  • travel to Taos, New Mexico
  • premonitions
  • At the Birth of an Age
  • books: Descent to the Dead: Poems Written in Ireland and Great Britain (1931)
  • Thurso's Landing and Other Poems (1932)
  • Give Your Heart to the Hawks and Other Poems (1933)
  • Solstice and Other Poems (1935)
  • Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems (Modern Library edition, 1935) Section 8: 1935-1940 chapter abstractMachine Age
  • Bixby Creek Bridge
  • New Deal
  • science and technology
  • Spanish Civil War
  • neutrality
  • travel to British Isles
  • marriage crisis
  • anxiety and premonitions
  • books: Such Counsels You Gave to Me and Other Poems (1937)
  • The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (1938) Section 9: 1940-1945 chapter abstractLibrary of Congress lecture
  • college and university lecture tour
  • World War II
  • Mara
  • The Bowl of Blood
  • election to American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • named Chancellor of Academy of American Poets
  • book: Be Angry at the Sun and Other Poems (1941) Section 10: 1945-1950 chapter abstractEnd of World War II
  • Broadway production of Dear Judas
  • Broadway production of Medea
  • "Poetry, Gongorism, and a Thousand years
  • " sons' marriages
  • grandchildren
  • travel to British Isles
  • health crises
  • books: Medea (1946)
  • The Double Axe and Other Poems (1948) Section 11: 1950-1955 chapter abstractDeath of Una
  • Korean War
  • Broadway production of The Tower Beyond Tragedy
  • publication of Visits to Ireland: Travel Diaries of Una Jeffers
  • revivals of Medea
  • performances of The Cretan Woman
  • book: Hungerfield and Other Poems (1954) Section 12: 1955-1962 chapter abstractTravel to British Isles
  • community plan for Tor House
  • Not Man Apart
  • The Loving Shepherdess
  • attack by Kenneth Rexroth
  • international acclaim
  • death
  • book: The Beginning and the End and Other Poems (1963, posthumous publication) Section 13: Afterword chapter abstractModern poetry
  • Jeffers' achievement

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