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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
• Author: Robinson Jeffers
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 504
• EAN: 9780804718479
• ISBN: 0804718474
• ID: 04716035
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 1347 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 41 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. March 1991

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