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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.
Robinson Jeffers was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. The son of Presbyterian minister and Biblical scholar, Dr. William Hamilton Jeffers, as a boy Jeffers was thoroughly trained in the Bible and classical languages.
Robinson Jeffers was an American poet whose work often explored the beauty and brutality of the natural world. His writing style, rooted in Romanticism and influenced by the Modernist movement, is characterized by its directness, narrative focus, and use of formal structures like blank verse and rhyme. Jeffers' poetry often grapples with themes ...
Robinson Jeffers was born on January 10, 1887, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, a town which is now part of Pittsburgh. His father, a professor of Old Testament literature and Biblical history at Western Theology Seminary in Pittsburgh, supervised Jeffers’s education, and Robinson began to learn Greek at the age of five.
Robinson Jeffers was one of the most controversial U.S. poets of the 20th century, for whom all things except his pantheistically conceived God are transient, and human life is viewed as a frantic, often contemptible struggle within a net of passions.
Robinson Jeffers led one of the most fascinating and controversial careers of any American poet. His dates, 1887 to 1962, are virtually identical with those of many of the greatest artists of international modernism, yet during a time when the post-symbolist lyric came to dominate poetry, he built much of his reputation on tragic verse dramas ...
Robinson Jeffers was born in Pittsburgh on January 10, 1887 to Presbyterian minister and biblical scholar Dr. William Hamilton Jeffers and Annie Robinson Tuttle Jeffers. Dr. Jeffers took an active interest in his son’s education, tutoring him in the bible and classical languages and taking his family to Europe for extended stays.
Poetry. Three of Robinson Jeffers’ major trade collections are now Public Domain. Downloadable PDFs of the complete texts of these three collections can be accessed by clicking these links: Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems. The Women at Point Sur. Cawdor and Other Poems.
Jeffers developed a philosophy he called "inhumanism," in which he urged us to "uncenter the human mind from itself," to turn away from technology and incapacitating social regulation and look toward nature as a proper model of consciousness.
Jun 15, 2011 · Robinson Jeffers’ life and poetry celebrated the brute beauty of nature. He was born in Pittsburg in 1887. His father, Dr. Jeffers, was a serious intellectual and strict disciplinarian who raised his son on the bible and the Greek and Roman classics. Jeffers studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles, where he met Una Call Kuster.
