The Critical Reputation Of Robinson Jeffers
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The Critical Reputation Of Robinson Jeffers
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Author : Alex A. Vardamis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
The Critical Reputation Of Robinson Jeffers written by Alex A. Vardamis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Critical Reputation Of Robinson Jeffers
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Author : Alex A. Vardamis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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Critical Essays On Robinson Jeffers
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Author : James Karman
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1990
Critical Essays On Robinson Jeffers written by James Karman and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Literary Criticism categories.
A selection of book reviews, articles, and essays that run the gamut from glorification to deprecation, all the more remarkable in that the selections were chosen for their representativeness and, in the case of reviews, to reveal the response Jeffers (1887-1962) received as his books appeared. Karm
Robinson Jeffers
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Author : Frederic Ives Carpenter
language : en
Publisher: New York : Twayne Publishers
Release Date : 1962
Robinson Jeffers written by Frederic Ives Carpenter and has been published by New York : Twayne Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Literary Criticism categories.
The figure of Robinson Jeffers is one of the most interesting in contemporary literature. From 1925 to 1935, Jeffers was often ranked with T. S. Eliot as a poet and with Eugene O'Neill as a tragic dramatist. Beginning with the Great Depression and continuing through WWII, his critical reputation and popularity alike declined. What caused this sudden fall from eminence? Were the times at fault? It has become increasing apparent that the sudden changes in Jeffers' reputation, and the sharp disagreements concerning his poetry, have been caused by something more fundamental than changing tastes or critical opinions. The basic problem involves the poet's philosophy of life, or morality, or religion. Meanwhile, critics and readers of his poetry have agreed upon one characteristic of it: the stamp of a unique personality, giving expression to a "singular" or "particular" mind. What makes his poetry challenging is that it has always dared to follow his thought to the end, wherever it might lead. Jeffers' singularity is the absolute self-reliance of transcendental individualism in its most extreme form. While the permanent value of Jeffers poetry must be measured by the standards of objective criticism, the unique nature of his poetry emphasizes the importance of the subjective reactions of individual readers to it.
Robinson Jeffers
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Author : Mercedes Cunningham Monjian
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2012-01-12
Robinson Jeffers written by Mercedes Cunningham Monjian and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Robinson Jeffers’ name has been so inseparably linked with California that it is difficult to think of his origins being elsewhere. Jeffers was both in 1887 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father was a professor at Western Theological Seminary and a scholar of ancient languages who taught his son to read Greek before he started school. In 1902, Jeffers enrolled in the University of Western Pennsylvania, now the University of Pittsburgh, but his family moved to California soon thereafter, and he graduated from Occidental College at the age of eighteen. Inhumanism was the label Jeffers first used in the preface to The Double Axe and Other Poems to explain the doctrine that permeates all of his poetry. Defining humanism as “a system of thinking in which man, his interests, and development, are made dominant, his addition of the negative prefix was his attempt to subdue human interests and development to something greater, contrasting them against the magnificent beauty and immense worth of the natural world. In addition to discussing Jeffers’ life and philosophy, Monjian analyzes the form and style of his poetry, calling it “a singular style, slashing its way across the page with violence of image and a free, crashing rhythm.” She ends the book: “Whatever the future holds for this poet, our own age is still awed by the magnificent talent and effort of a burdened mind struggling to free humanity from the shackles of an impoverished self-love, and the myths to which he believes it gave birth.”
Centennial Essays For Robinson Jeffers
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Author : Robert Zaller
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 1991
Centennial Essays For Robinson Jeffers written by Robert Zaller and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Literary Criticism categories.
This work is the first volume of critical essays devoted to the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Although Jeffers was likened to some of the greatest figures in the literary world, his work was controversial. His preoccupation with violence and sexuality was denounced by some, his alleged blasphemy by others. Condemned by moralists, Marxists, and Cold Warriors alike, Jeffers fell into obscurity until his death in 1962. Included are nine original essays by leading Jeffers scholars.
Robinson Jeffers And The Critics 1912 1983
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Author : Jeanetta Boswell
language : en
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 1986
Robinson Jeffers And The Critics 1912 1983 written by Jeanetta Boswell and has been published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Literary Criticism categories.
Robinson Jeffers
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Author : James Karman
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2015-08-05
Robinson Jeffers written by James Karman and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“[A] deeply informative biography . . . situates the poet in his time and place, tracing the effect of both contemporary history and wild nature on his work.” —Edwin Cranston, Harvard University 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. 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.
Robinson Jeffers And A Galaxy Of Writers
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Author : William B. Thesing
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 1995
Robinson Jeffers And A Galaxy Of Writers written by William B. Thesing and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.
Robinson Jeffers And The American Sublime
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Author : Robert Zaller
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-25
Robinson Jeffers And The American Sublime written by Robert Zaller and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime is the most comprehensive and most substantial critical work ever devoted to the major American poet Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962). Jeffers, the best known poet of California and the American West, particularly valorized the Big Sur region, making it his own as Frost did New England and Faulkner, Mississippi, and connecting it to the wider tradition of the American sublime in Emerson, Thoreau, and John Muir. The book also links Jeffers to a Puritan sublime in early American verse and explores his response to the Darwinian and Freudian revolutions and his engagement with modern astronomy. This discussion leads to a broad consideration of Jeffers' focus on the figure of Christ as emblematic of the human aspiration toward God—a God whom Jeffers defines not in Christian terms but in those of an older materialist pantheism and of modern science. The later sections of the book develop a conspectus of the democratic sublime that addresses American exceptionalism through the prism of Jeffers' Jeffersonian ethos. A final chapter places Jeffers' poetic thought in the larger cosmological perspective he sought in his late works.