John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887 – January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Much of Jeffers’ poetry was written in narrative and epic form. However, he is also known for his shorter verse and is considered an icon of the environmental movement. Influential and highly regarded in some circles, despite or because of his philosophy of “inhumanism”, Jeffers believed that transcending conflict required human concerns to be de-emphasized in favor of the boundless whole. This led him to oppose U.S. participation in World War II, a stance that was controversial after the U.S. entered the war. (Information from Wikipedia)
Website: robinsonjeffersassociation.org/
Articles in Western American Literature:
“A Terrible Genius”: Robinson Jeffers’s Art of Narrative
Jeffers, Rexroth, and the Trope of Hellenism
Home: A ‘Lost’ Jeffers Narrative
Land and Value: The Ecology of Robinson Jeffers
Reclaiming the Power: Robinson Jeffers’s Verse Novels
Robinson Jeffers’ Macabre and Darkly Marvelous Double Axe
Necessary Ecstasy: An Afterword to Cawdor
The Inhumanism of Robinson Jeffers
Robinson Jeffers: Apocalypse and His “Inevitable Place”
Robinson Jeffers and the Paeon
Jeffers’ “Cawdor” and the Hippolytus Story
