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In 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a volume that would remain in print for more than fifty years. For decades it drew enough poets, students, and general readers to keep Jeffers―in spite of the almost total academic neglect that followed his fame in the 1920s and 1930s―a force in American poetry. Now scholars are at last beginning to recognize that he created a significant alternative to the High Modernism of Pound, Eliot, and Stevens. Similarly, contemporary poets who have returned to the narrative poem acknowledge Jeffers to be a major poet, while those exploring California and the American West as literary regions have found in him a foundational figure. Moreover, Jeffers stands as a crucial precursor to contemporary attempts to rethink our practical, ethical, and spiritual obligations to the natural world and the environment. These developments underscore the need for a new selected edition that would, like the 1938 volume, include the long narratives that were to Jeffers his major work, along with the more easily anthologized shorter poems. This new selected edition differs from its predecessor in several ways. When Jeffers shaped the 1938

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Author

Robinson Jeffers

Publisher

Read Books Ltd.

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781443731072

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Anthropology, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.7 / 5 (97 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14