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The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Vols. I-V, the Complete Set

The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Vols. I-V, the Complete Set

Jeffers, Robinson
Hunt, Tim

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Series: Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 0804744181
ISBN13: 9780804744188
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Nov 1 2002
Pages: 2500
Language: English
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that California (and indeed the American West) has produced but a major poet of the twentieth century who occupies a prominent place in the tradition of American prophetic poetry.

Jeffers consciously set himself apart from the poetry of his generation--by physical isolation at his home in Carmel, by his unusual poetic form, and by his stance as an anti-modernist. Yet his work represents a profound, and profoundly original, artistic response to problems that shaped modernist poetry and that still perplex poets today; how to reconcile scientific and artistic discourses and modes of vision; how to connect present-day experience to myths perceived as lying at the origins of human culture; how to renew the poetic language and how (or whether) to present art's claim to moral, spiritual, or epistemological seriousness within representations of modern phenomena.

For Jeffers, as for no other important modern American poet, there has never been a collected poems, not even a truly representative selected poems--the current Selected Poetry, first published in 1938, contains no work from the last three volumes published during Jeffers' lifetime or from his posthumous volume. Now, for the first time, all of Jeffers' completed poems, both published and unpublished, are presented in a single, comprehensive, and textually authoritative edition.

The first three volumes of this four-volume work, will present chronologically all of Jeffers' published work from 1920 to 1963. The fourth volume will include apprentice work of 1912-1919, completed poems Jeffers left in manuscript, documents such as Jeffers' Preface to The Selected Poetry editorial apparatus that discusses the textual decisions made for the edition, and indexes of titles and first lines.

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