{"product_id":"the-collected-poetry-of-robinson-jeffers-volume-three-1939-1962-hardcover","title":"The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volume Three: 1939-1962 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobinson Jeffers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTim Hunt\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobinson 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJeffers 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor 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 \u003ci\u003eSelected Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 Now, for the first time, all of Jeffers' completed poems, both published and unpublished, are presented in a single, comprehensive, and textually authoritative edition. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Bowl of Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMedea\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Double Axe\u003c\/i\u003e byt were eventually omitted for reasons that are unclear; and those poems from his last years, which appeared posthumously in \u003ci\u003eThe Beginning and the End\u003c\/i\u003e, that seem to be completed drafts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn edition intended to clarify a 'Jeffers canon, ' establishing for times to come the verse legacy of a poet who looked on all things with the eyes of eternity.--San Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\"In its entirety, this project will, one hopes, reintroduce America to one of its greatest poets, and regain for him his rightful eminence. . . . Jeffers is the last of the major poets of his generation--Frost, Stevens, Williams, Pound, Moore, Eliot--to get his collected poems. Now that the job is at hand, it is done very well. . . . Tim Hunt has been painstaking in his editorial preparation and judicious in his presentation. . . . A great poet is ready for his due.\"--Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTim Hunt is Academic Dean of Deep Springs College, California, and the author of \u003ci\u003eKerouac's Crooked Road: The Development of a Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 504\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.61 x 10.33 x 7.85 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 1991\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757617086752,"sku":"9780804718479","price":162.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7eb98dbb6f722f71785cc1ffcc738b9e.webp?v=1780106885","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-collected-poetry-of-robinson-jeffers-volume-three-1939-1962-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}