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both published and unpublished, are presented in a single,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 present volume
consists of poems written from 1939 to Jeffers' death in 1963,
including the dramatic poems The Bowl of Blood, Medea, and The
Double Axe byt were eventually omitted for reasons that are
unclear; and those poems from his last years, which appeared
posthumously in The Beginning and the End, that seem to be
completed drafts.
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